Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOU SPOKE OF SAILING, by VIOLET SODERQUIST MOORE


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YOU SPOKE OF SAILING, by                    
First Line: If you had talked of anything but ships
Last Line: ... And dawn was not the only wakened fire?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


If you had talked of anything but ships
I might have stayed away.
But, lad, I learned the chanteys from your lips
And from your walk, the sway
Of all sea-going folk. Do you recall
The million-million crowded stars
That landsmen never saw at all?

If you had talked of anything but ships
I might have kept my peace --
Do you remember sudden salty quips
And Masefield spoken over with slow ease,
And secret understanding born of days
When each horizon was a silver wire
Flung far around a blue and mobile haze,
... And dawn was not the only wakened fire?





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