Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 1. THE GALE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky Last Line: His transient tragic destiny. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean | ||||||||
Allegro furioso Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky, The clouds retreating from a perilous affray Carry the moon with them, a heavy sack of gold; Sharp arrows, stars between them shoot and play. The wind, as it strikes the sand, Clutches with rigid hands And tears from them Thin ribbons of pallid sleet, Long stinging hissing drift, Which it trails up inland. I lean against the bitter wind: My body plunges like a ship. Out there I see grey breakers rise, Their ravelled beards are white, And foam is in their eyes. My heart is blown from me to-night To be transfixed by all the stars. Steadily the wind Rages up the shore: In the trees it roars and battles, With rattling drums And heavy spears, Toward the house-fronts on it comes. The village, a loose mass outflung, Breaks its path. Between the walls It bounces, tosses in its wrath. It is broken, it is lost. With green-grey eyes, With whirling arms, With clashing feet, With bellowing lungs, Pale green-white in a gallop across the sky, The wind comes. The great gale of the winter flings himself flat upon earth. He hurriedly scribbles on the sand His transient tragic destiny. | 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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