The Gulls
White stars scattering, Pale rain of spray-drops, Delicate flash of smoke wind-drifted low and high, Silver upon dark purple, The gulls quiver In a noiseless flight, far out across the sky.
John Gould Fletcher
White stars scattering, Pale rain of spray-drops, Delicate flash of smoke wind-drifted low and high, Silver upon dark purple, The gulls quiver In a noiseless flight, far out across the sky.
In John Gould Fletcher’s short lyric, the speaker watches a flock of gulls far out against a dark sky or sea. The birds are not named at first; they appear as “white stars scattering,” pale spray, and smoke drifting low and high.
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