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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LABRADOR NIGHT, by LEO COX First Line: Tonight our ship is anchored where Last Line: Is turned toward a cross. Subject(s): Labrador | |||
To-night our ship is anchored where Sand-silvered is the shore, To find at Havre St. Pierre Black gold of Labrador. The pioneer's first night on land, Unsteady from the seas, Was not more still than this, the sand And stars the same as these. .... This cycle of the selfsame wind, Cooled in far hills of snow, And charged with balsam, makes the mind At one with his of long ago. So little travelled is the street With grasses overgrown, There may be traces of his feet By weed and flower and stone. And all the houses face the sea— Mother of gain and loss— And every heart in piety Is turned toward a cross. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF by JAMES GALVIN THE SONG OF THE CAMP by BAYARD TAYLOR TO THE RAILROAD MEN by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 19. AL-FATTA'H by EDWIN ARNOLD THE FIRST GRAY HAIR by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY THE BLIND LEGION by WILLIAM ROSE BENET PSALM 114 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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