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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FLOTSAM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Screamed the far sea-mew. On the mirroring sands
Last Line: A still dirge echoing on from dream to dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Screamed the far sea-mew. On the mirroring sands
Last Line: A still dirge echoing on from dream to dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Screamed the far sea-mew. On the mirroring sands
Bell-shrill the oyster-catchers. Burned the sky.
Couching my cheeks upon my sun-scorched hands,
Down from bare rock I gazed. The sea swung by
Dazzling dark blue and verdurous, quiet with snow,
Empty with loveliness, with music a-roar,
Her billowing summits heaving noon-aglow --
Crashed the Atlantic on the cliff-ringed shore.
Drowsed by the tumult of that moving deep,
Sense into outer silence fainted, fled;
And rising softly, from the fields of sleep,
Stole to my eyes a lover from the dead;
Crying an incantation -- learned, Where? When?. . .
White swirled the foam, a fount, a blinding gleam
Of ice-cold breast, cruel eyes, wild mouth -- and then
A still dirge echoing on from dream to dream.
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