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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the marsh
Last Line: And the tumult of waters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean
First Line: Here where the marsh
Last Line: And the tumult of waters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean
Here where the marsh
Waves white with ranunculus,
Where the yellow daffodil
Flieth his banner
In the fetid air,
And oft 'mid the bulrushes
Rustleth the porcupine
Or surgeth the boar --
Though bloweth rarely
The fresh wind,
The Tramontana,
And only Scirocco
Heavily lifts
The feathery plumes the tall canes carry:
What dost thou here,
O bird of the ocean?
Here, where the marshes
Are never stirred
By the pulse of the tides;
Here where the white mists
Crawl on the swamp,
But never the rush and the surge of the billows?
White as a snowflake thou gleamest, and passest:
Drearier now the chill waste of the Stagno,
Wearier now the dull silence and boding.
Would that again
Thy glad presence were gleaming
Here where the marsh
Steams white in the sunshine;
For swift on my sight,
As thy white wings wavered,
Broke the sea in its beauty,
With foam, and splendour
Of rolling waves:
And loud on my ears (O the longing, the yearning)
When thy cry filled the silence,
Came the surge of the sea
And the tumult of waters.
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