Sea Lullaby, We Alone, and It’s All I Have To Bring Today-

By: Maddy S.

Elinor Wylie

Sea Lullaby

The old moon is tarnished With smoke of the flood,

The dead leaves are varnished With colour like blood,

A treacherous smiler With teeth white as milk,

A savage beguiler In sheathings of silk,

The sea creeps to pillage, She leaps on her prey;

A child of the village Was murdered today.

She came up to meet him In a smooth golden cloak,

She choked him and beat him To death, for a joke.

 Her bright locks were tangled, She shouted for joy,

With one hand she strangled A strong little boy.

Now in silence she lingers Beside him all night

To wash her long fingers In silvery light.

Sea LullabyThe old moon is tarnished With smoke of the flood, The dead leaves are varnished With colour like blood, A treacherous smiler With teeth white as milk, A savage beguiler In sheathings of silk, The sea creeps to pillage, She leaps on her prey; A child of the village Was murdered today. 

She came up to meet him In a smooth golden cloak, She choked him and beat him To death, for a joke. Her bright locks were tangled, She shouted for joy, With one hand she strangled A strong little boy. Now in silence she lingers Beside him all night To wash her long fingers In silvery light.

Alice Walker

We Alone

We alone can devalue gold

By not caringif it falls or rises in the marketplace.

Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know,

and if your chain is goldso much the worse for you

Feathers, shells and sea-shaped stones

are all as rare.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful

as much as what's scarce.

We Alone

We alone can devalue goldBy not caring If it falls or risesIn the market place

Wherever there is goldThere is a chain, you know,And if your chainIs goldSo much the worseFor you

Feathers, shellsAnd sea-shaped stonesAre all as rare.

This could be our revolution:

To love what is plentifulAs much asWhat’s scarce.

Emily Dickinson

It’s All I have To Bring Today-

It's all I have to bring today -- This, and my heart beside --

This, and my heart, and all the fields -- And all the meadows wide --

Be sure you count -- should I forget Some one the sum could tell --

This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell.

It’s All I Have To Bring Today--

It’s all I have to bring today --This, and my heart beside --This, and my heart, and all the fields --And all the meadows wide --Be sure you count -- should I forgetSome one the sum could tell --This, and my heart, and all the BeesWhich the Clover dwell.