From The Shore Comments

as well as the glories of chance and hazards of death. The poem is a beautiful and evocative meditation on the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and the ways in which we can find meaning and inspiration in the things around us

About a lone bird that is flying over the sea at night. The bird is described as "dim-dipping, far-flying" and is alone in the shadows and grandeurs of the night and the sea. It explores the bird's love of mist and rapture of flight,

a lonely gray bird from the deep shore to the dark world! ~ just wonderful poem penned

Words created scene in my mind. Such a power packed poetry.

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Very interesting poem. How beautifully narrated the flying of birds in such adversities of nature and the poet sees the flying as glories of chance and hazards of death a great imagination. This is a marvelous poem.

Interesting, I would say. Haven't each of us - at one time or another - sat in a beautiful place - alone - devoid of other soul's, and watched a bird glide in the steep winds? I have. Many times. I can't think of a more beautiful way to express such an encounter. I think that is the magic of Mr. Sandburg - his ability to reach into the reader and find commonality - and then enhance it by transferring the mundane into great wonder.

He chose nice descriptive words: Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults, rapture of flight, eager and palpitant wings The only thing that really, really bothers me about modern poetry is that the poets don't rhyme. That's just personal preference. I think a poem flows so much better when the lines rhyme. This poem got a 6.2 with 75 votes. With his beautiful, descriptive words if he'd have made this rhyme I think the score would be much higher! What do modern poets have against rhyming anyway? ?

Magnificent imagery; painted complete scene of chance, love, death, eagerness... Wonderful!