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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHALLOWS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER
First Line: I must swim out
Last Line: And fade, as a sail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers
First Line: I must swim out
Last Line: And fade, as a sail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers
I must swim out --
Overlong have I stayed
Here on the warm shale;
Aimlessly played. . . .
Gathering sea-shells
Empty and frail.
One dwindles here
Where the tides creep --
Grows dazzled,
Gazing too long through the clear
Wave at the sun asleep
On the sands overnear. . . .
What if the thought of the deep
Should become a fear?
I must swim out --
Lest the urge fail,
Darken duskward
And fade, as a sail.
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