On old Cape Cod

Chapter 51: Revery

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About This Book

A collection of lyrical poems that celebrates and mourns a coastal landscape through images of dunes, marshes, sea, winds, birds, flowers, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and changing seasons. The work blends close natural observation with wistful memory and maritime lore, moving between quiet descriptive pieces and dramatic evocations of storms and loss. Recurring motifs such as salt, sand, driftwood, and light bind domestic scenes and seafaring sketches to themes of transience, rootedness, and the consoling, restorative power of place.

Revery

Sweet angel of the backward look

And trailing wings,

We wander by Time’s restless brook

Of transient things

That from some far off, unseen nook

Forever springs.

Old Time may lay aside his glass

For just a day,

Let not the jewelled moments pass

But bid them stay,

The while we stretch upon the grass

In revery.