Long Island Sound

a poem by Emma Lazarus

Yes, that Emma Lazarus, the one who wrote the verses on the Statue of Liberty. Today, however, I have a small, quiet poem about a place she loved and made her own.

I see it as it looked one afternoon
In August,— by a fresh soft breeze o’erblown.
The swiftness of the tide, the light thereon,
A far-off sail, white as a crescent moon.

She paints the landscap…