Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Wings of the Morning (1904). III. Afterglow

Cicely Fox-Smith (1882–1954)

WET, streaming sand, and the tide going down;

Boats on the beach, and the sails patched and brown,

And the hearth-smoke hanging blue up above the drowsy town.

Strong scent of weed blowing off the harbour-bar,

A liner’s trail of smoke on the skyline faint and far,

And the bell-buoy clanging, and a lonely star.

Wet gleaming shore, and the sea-gull sweeping free,

A swinging lamp alight in the ropes by the quay,

And the wind singing low of a ship that waits for me.