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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BARNEGAT SHOALS, by WILLIAM H. FISCHER First Line: The wind blows east on barnegat Last Line: But ship and souls are gone. Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey | |||
The wind blows east on Barnegat, The wind blows east on Squan, As homeward bound sails the clipper ship, As homeward bound from a Madras trip, She bowls merrily on. The wind blows east on Barnegat, The wind blows east on Squan, After nine days of dead reckoning Tall Barnegat light is beckoning, She speeds joyously on. The wind blows east on Barnegat, The wind blows east on Squan, The driving mists hide the light from view, As swift toward death, with her hapless crew, She sweeps heedlessly on. The wind blows east on Barnegat, The wind blows east on Squan, The breakers crash on the treach'rous shoals: Pray, women, for your loved ones' souls, Into the breakers gone. The wind blows east on Barnegat, The wind blows east on Squan, The winding mists blot the heavens out, The clinging fogs shut the breakers out, And ship and souls are gone. The wind blows west on Barnegat, The wind blows west on Squan, The bright sun glints on the heaving sea, The spray leaps up from the bar in glee, But ship and souls are gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OFF BARNEGAT by ETHEL LYNN BEERS THE WRECKER'S OATH ON BARNEGAT by HENRY MORFORD A FORGOTTEN TUNE by PAUL VERLAINE THE FORSAKEN MERMAN by MATTHEW ARNOLD FARE WELL by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE WANDERING JEW by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY MOUNTAIN FROLIC by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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