reflections

By *rinking-in-la OP Couple over a year ago

Bristol

What is your favourite poem?

R.S. Thomas wrote mine. It is called reflections.

By *iamondsmiles.Woman over a year ago

little house on the praire

The slaves dream and the reaper and the flowers both by Longfellow and both very sad

By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson. That Lancelot had a lot to answer for !

By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Sea Fever

BY JOHN MASEFIELD

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking,

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.