|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew
Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The
First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew
Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The
If only up the straits the tempest flew,
Up the blue waters, past the perilous spray
To where the clustered cypresses are blue
Above pale stairs that touch the lisping bay,
I should not care, I should not greatly care --
If only up the straits the tempest flew!
If only up the straits my spirit flew
As once it flew when sails were all my wings,
To that deep garden where the moon is blue
And sea-sounds soften close-lipped whisperings,
I should not care, I should not greatly care --
If only up the straits my spirit flew!
Death could not keep me from the arms of you,
But I should die again upon your mouth
While all the swaying garden changed from blue
To red, and softer grew your bosom's south.
I should not care, I should not greatly care,
Dying again upon the mouth of you!
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT
FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT
TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT
CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND
OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY