LIKE the once lovely monster, in the tide Wade man and beast, a bare, unbridled twain 'Mid golden gusts of bitter, sea-blown rain, Their limber lines athwart the sun descried. The savage stallion and the churl astride Deep draughts of the sea's briny odour drain Glad of the icy thrill on flesh and mane From sprays that on the Atlantic billows ride. The surge swells, runs, rears upright, shatters. He Shouts loudly. The horse neighs, and with his tail Smites on the rushing blue as with a flail; While on the sky, with blown hair, shudderingly They bear a steaming front that breaks in hail The foamy lash of the assaulting sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI by HAYDEN CARRUTH WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE by HAYDEN CARRUTH TRANSLUCENT FINGERS by MALCOLM COWLEY INTERRACIAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |