Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POINT LOMA SONNETS: 11. VIZCAINO, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON First Line: Cabrillo's visit to our loma hill Last Line: The feet of lordly white men here again! Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616) | ||||||||
Cabrillo's visit to our Loma hill Became a legend passed along from sires To sons and daughters; told around old fires Built on these beaches when the wind was still At evening and the folk had had their fill Of fish and roasted seeds; and the loud choirs Of larks and mockingbirds were hushed. Desires For old tales woke again . . . tales told until From Acapulco Vizcaino brought His soldiers, sailors, priests -- four hundred men Seeking as in the Golden Hind bold Drake had sought The straits of fabled Anian. And then There was a stir of wonder with wild terror fraught: The feet of lordly white men here again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APRIL AFTERNOON, POINT LOMA (1769) by WINIFRED DAVIDSON COW BELLS by WINIFRED DAVIDSON EVENING SLIPPERS by WINIFRED DAVIDSON JUAN CABRILLO by WINIFRED DAVIDSON MISSION BEACH by WINIFRED DAVIDSON OCEAN BEACH by WINIFRED DAVIDSON OLD CASEMENTS; A SONNET CYCLE by WINIFRED DAVIDSON POINT LOMA SONNETS: 1. ON LOMA by WINIFRED DAVIDSON POINT LOMA SONNETS: 10. CABRILLO by WINIFRED DAVIDSON POINT LOMA SONNETS: 12. SUNRISE by WINIFRED DAVIDSON |
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