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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA GULLS IN DAKOTA, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH
First Line: The western sky is filled with soaring wings
Last Line: Of high tides, thundering, by the great sea wall.
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls
First Line: The western sky is filled with soaring wings
Last Line: Of high tides, thundering, by the great sea wall.
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls
The western sky is filled with soaring wings
Wheeling and dipping o'er the new-ploughed plain,
Far flying from their haunts beside the main
Of tossing waves, whose presence to me brings
A vision of high tides that, thundering, crack
Along the great sea wall—
Of green swells, baffled, bounding back—
White crests that break and fall.
Beyond the bare, brown plain the surges roll—
And rainbow sprays of spume bedew the air;
Desire grips me, and my eager soul
Chafes at its bonds, impatient to be there.
So white wings, wheeling, wake the insistent call
Of high tides, thundering, by the great sea wall.
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