Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 1. EVENING TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: By ocean's pallid strand Last Line: Smiling, illumed by the moon. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Sea Voyages | ||||||||
BY ocean's pallid strand Sat I, tormented in spirit and lonely. The sun sank lower and lower, and threw Red glowing streaks upon the water, And the snowy, spreading billows, By the flood hard-press'd, Foam'd and roar'd still nearer and nearer -- A wonderful sound, a whisp'ring and piping, A laughing and murmuring, sighing and rushing, Between times a lullaby-home-sounding singing, -- Methinks I hear some olden tradition, Primeval, favourite legend, Which I erst as a stripling Learnt from the neighbours' children, When we, on the summer evenings, On the house-door's steps all cower'd Cosily for quiet talking, With our little hearts all attentive, And our eyes all wisely curious; -- Whilst the bigger maidens, Close by their fragrant flowerpots Sat at the opposite window Rosy their faces, Smiling, illumed by the moon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV LEAVING FOREVER by DENISE LEVERTOV SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL SHACKLETON by MADELINE DEFREES QE2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY. by RITA DOVE MANHATTAN, 1609 by EDWIN MARKHAM CROSSING THE ATLANTIC by ANNE SEXTON THE INDIA WHARF by SARA TEASDALE |
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