(Made for the picture on the jacket of the Norwegian book, The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer) IT was night when the sky was dark blue And the water came in with a wavy look Like a spider's web. The point of the slope came down to the water's edge; It was green with a fairy ring of forget-me-not and fern. The white foam licked the side of the slope As it came up and bent backward; It curled up like a beautiful cinder-tree Bending in the wind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAMENT FOR [THE DEATH OF] THOMAS DAVIS by SAMUEL FERGUSON SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE by THOMAS HARDY COLUMBUS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER THE VOICE OF THE SEA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A SONG FOR MY FELLOWS by ALEXANDER ANDERSON |