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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETERNAL VIGIL, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Once again upon thy heaving breast Last Line: Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night. | |||
Oh! once again upon thy heaving breast I floated, like a seabird when it braves The shoreward onset of thy flowing waves And leaps triumphant on each rushing crest: Round me in dark magnificent unrest, The billows of the wild Atlantic rolled Far, far away, into the gates of gold, The sunlit portals of the stormy west: O never wearied! In the hush of noon Thy billows break the paths of golden sleep: They break the dreamlike lustre of the moon: Earth knows the hours of darkness: thou dost keep Eternal vigil: still thy surges white Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM SHANNON TO SEA by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES TOO DEEP FOR TEARS by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES TO RICHARD R. WRIGHT - INSTRUCTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FLORIDA GHOST by SIDNEY LANIER THE TEARES OF THE MUSES by EDMUND SPENSER NOT UNDERSTOOD by THOMAS BRACKEN |
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