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Quotation by Elizabeth Bishop
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as quoted in Contemporary Poets, 3rd ed. by James Vinson (1980)At the FishhousesFilling StationFirst Death in Nova ScotiaIn the Waiting RoomRelated Subjects
On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), U.S. poet. Large Bad Picture (l. 13–16). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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