Listen to:
I Strode Along My Beaches (:59)
by Wallace Stevens
performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode
Sonnet
'I strode along my beaches...'
John Morris 2nd pseud.
Havard Monthly, XXVIII, 5, Jul 1899, 188 Not found online
I strode along my beaches like a sea,
The sand before me stretching firm and fair;
No inland darkness cast its shadow there
And my long step was gloriously free.
The careless wind was happy company
That hurried past and did not question where;
Yet as I moved I felt a deep despair
And wonder of the thoughts that came to me.
For to my face the deep wind brought the scent
Of flowers I could not see upon the strand;
And in the sky a silent cloud was blent
With dreams of my soul's stillness; and the sand,
That had been naught to me, now trembled far
In mystery beneath the evening star.
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