Sea Garden

By H. D.

"Your lights are but dank shoals; slate and pebbles and wet shells; and sea weed fastened to the rocks." The book 'Sea Garden' is a collection of poems mainly themed on the sea and its natural scenery, as well as its perils to the sea faring. Some of the poem titles include: "She watches over the sea", "Mid-day", "Pursuit", "The Contest" and "Sea Lily."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4057664653611

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H. D.

Sea Garden

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4057664653611

Table of Contents

( she watches over the sea )

I

II

III

IV

MID-DAY

PURSUIT

THE CONTEST

I

II

III

SEA LILY

THE WIND SLEEPERS

THE GIFT

EVENING

SHELTERED GARDEN

SEA POPPIES

LOSS

HUNTRESS

GARDEN

I

II

SEA VIOLET

THE CLIFF TEMPLE

I

II

III

IV

ORCHARD

SEA GODS

I

II

III

ACON

I

II

NIGHT

PRISONERS

STORM

SEA IRIS

I

II

HERMES OF THE WAYS

II

PEAR TREE

CITIES

("

she watches over the sea

")

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Are your rocks shelter for ships—

have you sent galleys from your beach,

are you graded—a safe crescent—

where the tide lifts them back to port—

are you full and sweet,

tempting the quiet

to depart in their trading ships?

Nay, you are great, fierce, evil—

you are the land-blight—

you have tempted men

but they perished on your cliffs.

Your lights are but dank shoals,

slate and pebble and wet shells

and seaweed fastened to the rocks.

It was evil—evil

when they found you,

when the quiet men looked at you—

they sought a headland

shaded with ledge of cliff

from the wind-blast.

But you—you are unsheltered,

cut with the weight of wind—

you shudder when it strikes,

then lift, swelled with the blast—