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The Sisters' Tragedy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Book Overview: 

This is a collection of poetry by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The collection includes several poems in the form of dialogues.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .English earth!
  If the unleashed and happy spirit of man
  Have option to revisit our dull globe,
  What august Shades at midnight here convene
  In the miraculous sessions of the moon,
  When the great pulse of London faintly throbs,
  And one by one the stars in heaven pale!

ALEC YEATON'S SON GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720

  The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned,
     And the white caps flecked the sea;
  "An' I would to God," the skipper groaned,
     "I had not my boy with me!"

  Snug in the stern-sheets, little John
     Laughed as the scud swept by;
  But the skipper's sunburnt cheek grew wan
     As he watched the wicked sky.

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Community Reviews

what a psychological drama. I wonder what the youngest sister had in her mind. Was it a fragile mind or she was pshologically retarded. How poor their brother was...more