Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SANDY HOOK, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poet's Biography First Line: White sand and cedars; cedars, sand Last Line: Rattling their life-boats down the sand! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. | ||||||||
WHITE sand and cedars; cedars, sand; Light-houses here and there; a strand Strewn o'er with driftwood; tangled weeds; A squad of fish-hawks poised above The nets, too anxious-eyed to move; Flame-flowering cactus; winged seeds, That on a sea of sunshine lie Unfanned, save by some butterfly; A sun now reddening toward the west; -- And under and through all one hears That mellow voice, old as the years, The waves' low monotone of unrest. So wanes the summer afternoon In drowsy stillness, and the moon Appears; when, sudden, round about The wind-cocks wheel, -- hoarse fog-horns shout A warning, and in gathering gloom Against the sea's white anger loom Tall shapes of wreckers, torch in hand, Rattling their life-boats down the sand! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTONIO by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS MOLLY PITCHER [JUNE 28, 1778] by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS A SONG OF TWO ANGELS by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS AT EASTER TIME by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS JOHNNY'S BY-LOW SONG by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS SONG OF THE LITTLE WINDS by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS THE MANOR LORD by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS WHERE HELEN SITS by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS SOLOMON TO SHEBA by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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