wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan.
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the
sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices—
in and out, illuminating
the
turquoise sea
of bodies. The water drives a wedge
of iron throught the iron edge
of the cliff; whereupon the stars,
pink
rice-grains, ink-
bespattered jelly fish, crabs like green
lilies, and submarine
toadstools, slide each on the other.
All
external
marks of abuse are present on this
defiant edifice—
all the physical features of
ac-
cident—lack
of cornice, dynamite grooves, burns, and
hatchet strokes, these things stand
out on it; the chasm-side is
dead.
Repeated
evidence ahs proved that it can live
on what can not revive
its youth. The sea grows old in it.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- After The Visit by Thomas Hardy
- For Aun by Lynne Scott
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: On Capt. Lascelles:
- Николай Языков – Услад
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- The Raft by Vachel Lindsay
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
- A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Old Manor House
- It is a Show by Rixa White
- Me Imperturbe. by Walt Whitman
- Towards Break Of Day by William Butler Yeats
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
