<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Convalescence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From out the dragging vastness of the sea,<br>Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands,<br>He toils toward the rounding beach, and stands<br>One moment, white and dripping, silently,<br>Cut like a cameo in lazuli,<br>Then falls, betrayed by shifting shells, and lands<br>Prone in the jeering water, and his hands<br>Clutch for support where no support can be.<br>So up, and down, and forward, inch by inch,<br>He gains upon the shore, where poppies glow<br>And sandflies dance their little lives away.<br>The sucking waves retard, and tighter clinch<br>The weeds about him, but the land-winds blow,<br>And in the sky there blooms the sun of May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Lowell">Amy Lowell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343670" data-title="Convalescence de Amy Lowell" data-description="From out the dragging vastness of the sea, Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands, He toils toward the rounding beach, and stands One moment, white and dripping, silently, Cut like a cameo in lazuli, Then falls, betrayed by shifting shel..."></div> </div> </div>

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