James Joyce. On the Beach at Fontana. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

On the Beach at Fontana

By James Joyce


WIND whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pier-stakes groan;
A senile sea numbers each single
Slime-silvered stone.

From whining wind and colder	5
Grey sea I wrap him warm,
And touch his fine-boned boyish shoulder
And trembling arm.

Around us fear, descending,
Darkness of fear above;	10
And in my heart how sweet unending
Ache of love.