Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 4. THE WRECK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: Its huge red prow Last Line: Alone with its forgotten tragedy. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks | ||||||||
Grave: triste Its huge red prow Uplifted in a tragic attitude, It waits out there; the seas around Bubble and hiss with moaning sound: In sight of port at the gates of the sea, It waits upreared expectantly. It has known the joy of battle, It has known the shock of wreck: The spray coated its planking, The sands swallow its deck: Monument of the sea, That knows and that forgets eternally. It heaves its scarred brow towards the city: The city pays it little heed: Indifferent, brutal, without pity, Stern cargo-steamers trudge and speed; The sun glares on it and the gulls wheel and flash, The rain beats on its deck, the winds pass silently; It is out there alone with the immense sea: Alone with its forgotten tragedy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER by WILLIAM MEREDITH EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK by AIME CESAIRE CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS by ROBERT FROST AFTER THE SHIPWRECK by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |
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