Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SANTA BARBARA BEACH, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now while the sunset offers Last Line: "shall feed my wells with tears." Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore | ||||||||
Now while the sunset offers, Shall we not take our own: The gems, the blazing coffers, The seas, the shores, the throne? The sky-ships, radiant-masted, Move out, bear low our way. Oh, Life was dark while it lasted, Now for enduring day. Now with the world far under, To draw up drowning men And show them lands of wonder Where they may build again. There earthly sorrow falters, There longing has its wage; There gleam the ivory altars Of our lost pilgrimage. Swift flamethen shipwrecks only Beach in the ruined light; Above them reach up lonely The headlands of the night. A hurt bird cries and flutters Her dabbled breast of brown; The Western wall unshutters To fling one last rose down. A rose, a wild light after And life calls through the years, "Who dreams my fountain's laughter Shall feed my wells with tears." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS EASTERN LONG ISLAND by MARVIN BELL THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST by JOSEPH CERAVOLO IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF by LUCILLE CLIFTON GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING by MADELINE DEFREES POWER FAILURE by MADELINE DEFREES EYE-WITNESS by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE A VISION OF SPRING (LATE WINTER, 1915) by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE |
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