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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GIGHA, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poet's Biography
First Line: That firewood pale with salt and burning green
Last Line: The sun with long legs wades into the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S.
Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean
First Line: That firewood pale with salt and burning green
Last Line: The sun with long legs wades into the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S.
Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean
That firewood pale with salt and burning green
Outfloats its men who waved with a sound of
drowning
Their saltcut hands over mazes of this rough bay.
Quietly this morning beside the subsided herds
Of water I walk. The children wade the shallows.
The sun with long legs wades into the sea.
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