Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLUE WATER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean | ||||||||
SEA-VIOLINS are playing on the sands; Curved bows of blue and white are flying over the pebbles, See them attack the chords -- dark basses, glinting trebles. Dimly and faint they croon, blue violins. "Suffer without regret," they seem to cry, "Though dark your suffering is, it may be music, Waves of blue heat that wash midsummer sky; Sea-violins that play along the sands." | 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 ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |
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