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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON LONELY COASTS, by CECILIA ELLERBE
First Line: Poems are waters that have lain
Last Line: Where waters of the spirit reach.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets
First Line: Poems are waters that have lain
Last Line: Where waters of the spirit reach.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets
Poems are waters that have lain
Beneath the wind, beneath the rain.
They rise from pools where darkness lies,
They are the tides of cloudless skies.
To bear on crests of ecstacy,
Light of the sun, sounds of the sea.
They are the swift currents earth has known,
When from far shores strange winds have blown.
Poems are waves of foam that press
On silent coasts of loneliness,
Faith, passion, pity, love and grief
That pour on Time, as on a reef.
From surging fathoms that must be
Lifted on high eternally,
Till beauty flows across a beach,
Where waters of the spirit reach.
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