Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 1. THE PILOT IN THE MIST, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steaming the northern rapids - (an old st. Lawrence reminiscence) Last Line: Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping | ||||||||
Steaming the northern rapids -- (an old St. Lawrence reminiscence, A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why, Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;) Again 'tis just at morning -- a heavy haze contends with daybreak, Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me -- I press through foamdash'd rocks that almost touch me, Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW THE SHIP POUNDING by DONALD HALL ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC by ANSELM HOLLO THE NORTH SHIP by PHILIP LARKIN GOOD SHIPS by JOHN CROWE RANSOM A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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