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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE
First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night
Last Line: Sh!
Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean
First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night
Last Line: Sh!
Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean
The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night,
Rippling, swishing through the reeds,
The plashy, marshy weeds,
That flash of white, a homing gull in flight;
Some call it heeds;
Hush!
Trembling, the light recedes, the colors die,
The sky is gray, the shadow of night
Falls black on the water's light.
The heavens deepen with stars, the wind glides by,
Night seems to sigh,
Hush!
Through space, from purple sky, the starlight falls
On pungent, lisping waves and grasses;
Night's magnetism passes
Through the marsh: a distant sea-bird calls,
The white mist crawls.
Hush,
Sh!
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