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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROUD SHANTIES, by WINIFRED WELLES
First Line: Shanties, silvering themselves along the beaches
Last Line: It's plain that they feel capable of pearl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses; Simplicity
First Line: Shanties, silvering themselves along the beaches
Last Line: It's plain that they feel capable of pearl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses; Simplicity
Shanties, silvering themselves along the beaches,
Like heaps of old shells that the tide washes in,
The coarse grasses and the sea-gull's screeches
And the sound of the sea have scraped thin.
Shanties are sure that they are shells when sunset-tinted,
Or filmed by fog in an opalescent swirl --
And in moonlight, when every grain of sand is glinted,
It's plain that they feel capable of pearl.
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