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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PORT NAVALO, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: The rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny
Last Line: The headland by no passion haunted.
Subject(s): Nature; Paris (mythology); Trojan War
First Line: The rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny
Last Line: The headland by no passion haunted.
Subject(s): Nature; Paris (mythology); Trojan War
THE rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny,
The sea bloomed green and fading gold,
The headland arched with acres lawny
And sank in dimplings manifold.
Was it such flowers she gazed upon,
Helen—upcaught in Paris' hands?
Was it such flowers unfolding shone
From buds of fire, o'er Trojan sands?
For Balkis did like lovely hues
Deepen the hot Arabian glow?
Such changing radiance confuse
Her eyes with hourly ebb and flow?
Sure for delight of dreaming eyes
These petals their pale splendour pour,
Sea-blossoms shine, and ruddy dyes
Shake in the heat-waves on the shore!
Yet wanting eyes that stared and dimmed
Still had the rocks their blossom flaunted
And tawny lichen spreading brimmed
The headland by no passion haunted.
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