Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nov. 5, 1850 - Oct. 30, 1919

 

A Marine Etching

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free,
And leaped like a steed o'er the race track blue,
Then up behind her, the dust of the sea,
A gray fog, drifted, and hid her from view.

Source:

Custer And Other Poems
Copyright 1896
W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago