Tidal waves

sudden from out the vast bewildered sea,

fiece tidal waves, like unchained monsters, break

sudden from out the vast bewildered sea,

fiece tidal waves, like unchained monsters, break

in cruel clutch the mightest ships they take,

tossing them high in fiendish jubilee

leaving them far inland, stranded hopelessly,

worse wrecks than sharpest rock of reef can make.

at record of such wave, strange fancies wake,

half wake, within me, as if memory

at record of such wave, strange fancies wake,

half wake, within me, as if memory

recalled some life in other world

recalled some life in other world



there rolls a dangerous sea,

unseen, on which are borne

by fiercer tidal waves brave women's souls

to barren inlands, where, too strong to die,

even of thirst and loneliness and scorn,

like ghastly stranded wrecks, long years they lie