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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DARK SHORE, by BERNICE W. THORSON
First Line: There is a shore where the cypress
Last Line: That dark, resisting shore.
First Line: There is a shore where the cypress
Last Line: That dark, resisting shore.
There is a shore where the cypress
Grows down to the water's very edge --
A melancholy view, unwarmed by sun,
Lit only by thin slivers of pale light
Filtering through a gloomy sky,
Like dead fingers reaching down
To the deep-woods' floor.
Beyond, acres of lashing waters,
And the dismal skirl of the barbaric gale
That bends the forest height
As though to break asunder --
Then flings back against the sky
Like waving pennants on the clouds of storm --
Wailing wind and foaming tide --
Torrential rains that beat and battle
That dark, resisting shore.
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