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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA NURTURED, by LENA HALL
First Line: Watchers beside sea water wear a calm
Last Line: They hold strange concourse with immensity!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: Watchers beside sea water wear a calm
Last Line: They hold strange concourse with immensity!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
Watchers beside sea water wear a calm.
In every port such tragedies are born
Through unrelenting nights, such hands forlorn
Beat the brass heavens for a healing balm!
Lonely in city streets as a stripped palm
In redwood forests, these still watchers pass;
Alien as pansies in the meadow grass,
The sea born bear the movement of a psalm.
I would not dare to speak a wanton word
To these still faces, for I know the roar
Of wind-stung water on a sharpened shore;
The deadly undertow that drags unheard.
Speak softly the pale watchers of the sea, --
They hold strange concourse with immensity!
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