To a Solitary Sea-Gull
Lone white gull with sickle wings,
You reap for the heart inscrutable things:
Sorrow of mists and surf of the shore,
Winds that sigh of the nevermore;
Fret of foam and flurry of rain,
Swept far over the troubled tide;
Maths of mystery and grey pain
The sea’s voice ever yields, beside.
Lone white gull, you reap for the heart
Life’s most sad and inscrutable part.