Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WRECK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm and unconscionable winds once cast Last Line: And, sipping of contrast, finds the day more fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
Storm and unconscionable winds once cast On grinding shingle, masking gap-toothed rock, This ancient hulk. Rent hull, and broken mast, She sprawls sand-mounded, of sea birds the mock. Her sailors, drowned, forgotten, rot in mould, Or hang in stagnant quiet of the deep -- The brave, the afraid into one silence sold; Their end a memory fainter than of sleep. She held good merchandise. She paced in pride The uncharted paths men trace in ocean's foam. Now laps the ripple in her broken side, And zephyr in tamarisk softly whispers, Home. The dreamer scans her in the sea-blue air, And, sipping of contrast, finds the day more fair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS ALL THAT'S PAST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE |
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