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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SALTON SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD
First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea
Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben
Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds
First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea
Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben
Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds
O glittering, heartless, fearful sea,
A man's last stand upon your shore!
On canyons lean and gray mesquite,
Where travelers die and spirits flee;
And on the waves death hovers o'er,
The scarred hills grin from their retreat.
No birds are joyous on your breast,
Nor tree nor flower adorns that beach.
A glistening, sparkling, cruel light
Comes stabbing from the awful west
And dances, while the eyes beseech
The hastening of the desert night.
O Salton Sea! dead apples yours,
Till man defied your Circean chain
And saw the waste through prophet's eyes.
Now waves the harvest green, and lures
Hot love to mate, while brawn and brain
Have forced a gate to Paradise.
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