Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 9, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poet's Biography First Line: Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown Last Line: Toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown,. Far winds of fall, your litanies of pain Moan like the music of a wild refrain Heard thro' the midnight of a feudal town! Young night is lipped with jasper where the blown Burden of evening lights intensely wane, And, shuddering seaward from the tawny plain, Vague fold on fold the enormous dark comes down. Gusty and fervid as the sleepless sea The passionate fancies of a formless fear Spring in my nervous brain like monstrous flowers; The night, the wind-chant work their will of me, And thoughts like death-bells echoing far and near, Toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS A SONG FOR REVOLUTION by GEORGE CABOT LODGE |
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