All Day Long Poem by Carl Sandburg

All Day Long

Rating: 2.9


All day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago,
Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap,
He looked at me from blue and steely eyes;
Natty, straight and true, he stepped away,
My boy, he went to sea.
All day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 14 March 2014

All day long in fog and wind, The waves have flung their beating crests

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Sylvaonyema Uba 06 January 2017

...blue and steely eyes Life is rough and tough. Only the determined survives in the vineyard of life. A good piece of poetry. Sylva-Onyema Uba

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Bernard F. Asuncion 06 January 2017

Wonderful piece of work+++++++++++++++

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Edward Kofi Louis 06 January 2017

Fog and wind! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 06 January 2017

Beautiful photographic illustration by words. Reader could feel the zeal and his inquisitive loneliness to uncap the mystery of wild beauty..............................Nice.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 08 January 2017

Nice... thanks for sharing++++++

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Douglas Scotney 07 January 2017

I had to look up 'adamant'. I'm glad I did.

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Rajnish Manga 07 January 2017

The beauty of the description of the turbulent weather kept aside, the element of mystery stings the sensibility of the reader. Thanks for sharing.

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Seamus O Brian 06 January 2017

Nicely done in that it only hints at aspects of a much larger story. We are left contemplating the power of the sea, and the decision of a young man to therein venture. What becomes of him? We wonder to the rhythm of the palisades of adamant, all....day....long....

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Anil Kumar Panda 06 January 2017

Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap, He looked at me from blue and steely eyes; ... is very nice. Thanks for sharing such a nice poem. Congrats.

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