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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH WIND, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's
Last Line: While slave-ships foundered under samothrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): England; English
First Line: Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's
Last Line: While slave-ships foundered under samothrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): England; English
Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's
Decline; my female ancestors were shocked
Investing eyes like Mid-Victorian mourners'
In veils of fear; but one among them mocked.
She only, careless and aristocratic,
Laughed at Boeotius, laughing in his face,
And stared, in disarray divinely static,
While slave-ships foundered under Samothrace.
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