Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PINE-TREE BUOY, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poet's Biography First Line: Where all the winds were tranquil Last Line: Of what you knew is dead. | ||||||||
WHERE all the winds were tranquil, And all the odors sweet, And rings of tumbling upland Sloped down to kiss your feet; There, in a nest of verdure, You grew from bud to bough; You heard the song at mid-day, -- At eve the plighted vow. But fate that gives a guerdon Takes back a double fee: She hewed you from your homestead And set you in the sea. And every bowling billow Bends down your barren head To hearken if the whisper Of what you knew is dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DESTINY by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS FICKLE HOPE by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS GOOD NIGHT by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS MOHAMMED AND SEID by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS THE LONELY BIRD by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE DREAMS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER HEROIC LOVE by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN by THOMAS HARDY |
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