Aboard this boat of rotten wood gathering fruit of the nimba tree here we are in the open sea where the waves never cease only one-day's food along shore a billion miles away what's the cause of our distress alas it's due to bitterness | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE FAVORED ACORN by ROBERT FROST THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 by THOMAS CAMPION THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE CHARIOT by EMILY DICKINSON THE MARSEILLAISE by CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE GATHERING SONG OF DONALD [OR, DONUI DHU] THE BLACK by WALTER SCOTT FIAMMETT: SONNET. OF FIAMMETTA SINGING by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO |