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The White Sail
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ISBN10: 1548302554
ISBN13: 9781548302559
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 23 2017
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781548302559
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 23 2017
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt from The White Sail: And Other Poems
The White Sail.
High on the lone and wave-scarred porphyry,
The promontoried porch of Attica,
Past evenfall, sat he whose reverend hair
Down-glittered with the breaker's volleying foam
Visioned before him in the level dark:
AEgeus, of wronged Pandion heir, and king.
The White Sail.
High on the lone and wave-scarred porphyry,
The promontoried porch of Attica,
Past evenfall, sat he whose reverend hair
Down-glittered with the breaker's volleying foam
Visioned before him in the level dark:
AEgeus, of wronged Pandion heir, and king.
And round about his knees, and at his feet,
In saffrons and sad greens alone bedight,
Sat, clustered in dim wayward sidelong groups
Sheer to the ocean's edge, those liegemen fond
Who with him wished and wept. As thro' the hours
Of ebbing autumn, on a northward hill,
Lies summer's russet ruined panoply,
Knotted and heaped by the fantastic winds
Hap-hazard, while the first adventuring snow
Globes itself on the summit; so they clung
Secure among the ranged crevices,
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In saffrons and sad greens alone bedight,
Sat, clustered in dim wayward sidelong groups
Sheer to the ocean's edge, those liegemen fond
Who with him wished and wept. As thro' the hours
Of ebbing autumn, on a northward hill,
Lies summer's russet ruined panoply,
Knotted and heaped by the fantastic winds
Hap-hazard, while the first adventuring snow
Globes itself on the summit; so they clung
Secure among the ranged crevices,
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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