Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ISLANDER, by ALICE LAWRY GOULD


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ISLANDER, by                    
First Line: Many have felt the lure and fantasy
Last Line: Who can know islands like the island-born?
Subject(s): Fantasy; Islands; Secrets


Many have felt the lure and fantasy
That hovers over islands. Many may
Have sought them for a summer's holiday,
Intent on solitude or novelty.

But islands have few secrets hid from me,
Born where the winds and seasons have their sway
On a small island in an open bay --
Rock-buttressed in a changeful northern sea.

I know the sun just out of rose-leaf ocean;
The shrieking wildness of the equinox
Heaving the waters with a mighty motion;
Still moonlight over silver sands and rocks.
Turbulent, peaceful; radiant, forlorn . . .
Who can know islands like the island-born?





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