Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY STUBBORN STARS: SONNET 1, by KENNETH LESLIE Poet's Biography First Line: The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine Last Line: Straight through the air my mooring line to you. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails | ||||||||
The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine, silver of life, life's silver sheen of glory; my hands, cut with the cold, hurt with the pain of hauling the net, pulled the heavy dory, heavy with life, low in the water, deep plunged to the gunwale's lips in the stress of rowing, the pulse of rowing that puts the world to sleep, world within world endlessly ebbing, flowing. At length you stood on the landing and you cried, with quick low cries you timed me stroke on stroke as I steadily won my way with the fulling tide and crossed the threshold where the last wave broke and coasted over the step of water and threw straight through the air my mooring line to you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SAILS OF MURMUR by ANSELM HOLLO THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH] by CHARLES DIBDIN HOW'S MY BOY? by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL LOVE AT SEA by THEOPHILE GAUTIER BY STUBBORN STARS: SONNET 2 by KENNETH LESLIE |
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