I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous I see his white body, I see his undaunted eyes, I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks. What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves? Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middl Steady and long he struggles, He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out, The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll h His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruis'd o Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAMPUS SONNET: MAY MORNING by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET JOY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TWO SONNETS: 1 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER by EDITH SITWELL |