“The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
“He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.’’
—From “Sandpiper,’’ by famed American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), who was born in Worcester and died in Boston. She lived in Brazil, among other places.
She spent parts of six summers (1974-1979) on the island town of North Haven Island, Maine, best known for its summer colony of prominent Northeasterners, particularly Boston Brahmins. Among the more notable summer residents was the painter Frank Weston Benson, who rented the Wooster Farm as a summer home and painted several canvases set on the island.
Harborfront and ferry terminal on the island of North Haven.
— Photo by Jp498
“Summer,’’ by Frank Weston Benson
