Waterbird Board: Space four

May 9, 2006 12:47 AM

Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea.

I'll take this down if you two deem it unsuitable, but I rather think it fits - "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," a children's poem by Eugene Field. It nicely ties up the patterns of repetition in the Frost and Knowles poems, and in the diction of the Glass excerpt; the imagery seemed to mesh as well, what with the sleep, sailing, and journeys.

Full text of the poem can be found here: http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html

Posted by Sarah Yost at May 9, 2006 12:47 AMMay 23, 2006