Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STORMY PETRELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography First Line: When down the gray atlantic drives the flaw Last Line: The clarion lips of storm! Subject(s): Storms | ||||||||
WHEN down the gray Atlantic drives the flaw, And the mad winds alternate shout and wail, When angry billows move the soul to awe, These birds out-ride the gale. One with the wave, one with the lash of rain, One with the wildest gust that flings the foam, These winged wanderers of the outer main Make the great deep their home. For us the love of earth, the sunshine bright, Voices of friends about the ingle warm; For them the unfathomable gulfs of night, The clarion lips of storm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STORM AT HOPTIME by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THERE IS A SOLEMN WIND TONIGHT by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DEWEY AND DANCER by JOSEPHINE MILES MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM by GWENDOLYN BROOKS BREACHING THE ROCK by MADELINE DEFREES THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN by STEPHEN DOBYNS OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN by ANSELM HOLLO |
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