<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508989" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks hunting<br>on the headland,<br>Hovering and darting, their heads northwestward,<br>Prick like silver arrows shot through a curtain the noise of the<br>ocean<br>Trampling its granite; their red backs gleam<br>Under my window around the stone corners; nothing gracefuller,<br>nothing<br>Nimbler in the wind. Westward the wave-gleaners,<br>The old gray sea-going gulls are gathered together, the northwest<br>wind wakening<br>Their wings to the wild spirals of the wind-dance.<br>Fresh as the air, salt as the foam, play birds in the bright wind,<br>fly falcons<br>Forgetting the oak and the pinewood, come gulls<br>From the Carmel sands and the sands at the river-mouth, from<br>Lobos and out of the limitless<br>Power of the mass of the sea, for a poem<br>Needs multitude, multitudes of thoughts, all fierce, all flesh-eaters,<br>musically clamorous<br>Bright hawks that hover and dart headlong, and ungainly<br>Gray hungers fledged with desire of transgression, salt slimed<br>beaks, from the sharp<br>Rock-shores of the world and the secret waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</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=508989" data-title="Birds de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks hunting on the headland, Hovering and darting, their heads northwestward, Prick like silver arrows shot through a curtain the noise of the ocean Trampling its granite; their red backs gleam Unde..."></div> </div> </div>

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