SUNDAY POETRY: "SEA-WARD, WHITE GLEAMING..."

(Common gull, or mew gull, or sea-mew, or Larus canus. Photo by Tomasz Sienicki, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)

Fragment 1: SEA-WARD, WHITE GLEAMING THRO' THE BUSY SCUD

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud

With arching Wings, the sea-mew o'er my head

Posts on, as bent on speed, now passaging

Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding, drifts,

Now floats upon the air, and sends from far

A wildly-wailing Note.