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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE BREAKWATER, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: On the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a
Last Line: And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his knee.
First Line: On the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a
Last Line: And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his knee.
ON the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a girl are sitting,
She across his knee and they are looking face into face
Talking to each other without words, singing rythms in silence to each other.
A funnel of white ranges the blue dusk from an outgoing boat,
Playing its searchlight, puzzled, abrupt, over a streak of green,
And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his knee.
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