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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD WHARVES, by BURT FRANKLIN JENNESS
First Line: A certain sadness marks old wharves which sway
Last Line: Cry out remonstrance to intrusion there.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: A certain sadness marks old wharves which sway
Last Line: Cry out remonstrance to intrusion there.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
A certain sadness marks old wharves which sway
And totter like old men about to fall;
Against the city's edge above the bay
They cling like tide-drift on some great sea wall.
The waves divide against their rotting stiles
Like laughing lips before snagged teeth in speech,
And like bedabbled skirts the sea growths reach
To muddy depths upon their crusted piles.
Where once proud clippers chafed the busy quay
The feet of idlers dangle; youths and men—
Old men with misty eyes, look out to sea.
The creaking wharves, released from years of care,
Become intolerant of life, and then
Cry out remonstrance to intrusion there.
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