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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 5. STEAMERS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography
First Line: Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies
Last Line: Up purple and chrome horizons.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping
First Line: Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies
Last Line: Up purple and chrome horizons.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping
Maestoso
Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies,
The steamers in herds
Swim through the choppy breakers
On this day of winds and clouds.
Wallowing and plunging,
They seek their path,
The smoke of their snorting
Hangs in the sky.
Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies,
The steamers pass,
Flapping their propellers
Salt with the spray.
Their iron sides glisten,
Their stays thrash:
Their funnels quiver
With the heat from beneath.
Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies,
The steamers together
Dive and roll through the tumult
Of green hissing water.
These are the avid of spoil,
Gleaners of the seas,
They loom on their adventure
Up purple and chrome horizons.
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