Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ISLANDER, by ALICE LAWRY GOULD First Line: Many have felt the lure and fantasy Last Line: Who can know islands like the island-born? Subject(s): Fantasy; Islands; Secrets | ||||||||
Many have felt the lure and fantasy That hovers over islands. Many may Have sought them for a summer's holiday, Intent on solitude or novelty. But islands have few secrets hid from me, Born where the winds and seasons have their sway On a small island in an open bay -- Rock-buttressed in a changeful northern sea. I know the sun just out of rose-leaf ocean; The shrieking wildness of the equinox Heaving the waters with a mighty motion; Still moonlight over silver sands and rocks. Turbulent, peaceful; radiant, forlorn . . . Who can know islands like the island-born? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR CHANEL NO. 5 by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXISTING LIGHT; FOR LEE NYE by MADELINE DEFREES GRETA GARBO AND THE STAR MESSENGER by MADELINE DEFREES ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN by NORMAN DUBIE MARGARET'S SPEECH by NORMAN DUBIE THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN by NORMAN DUBIE THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY by NORMAN DUBIE RHYME FOR A CHILD VIEWING A NAKED VENUS IN A PAINTING by ROBERT BROWNING |
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