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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PINE-TREE BUOY, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poet's Biography First Line: Where all the winds were tranquil Last Line: Of what you knew is dead. | |||
WHERE all the winds were tranquil, And all the odors sweet, And rings of tumbling upland Sloped down to kiss your feet; There, in a nest of verdure, You grew from bud to bough; You heard the song at mid-day, -- At eve the plighted vow. But fate that gives a guerdon Takes back a double fee: She hewed you from your homestead And set you in the sea. And every bowling billow Bends down your barren head To hearken if the whisper Of what you knew is dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DESTINY by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS FICKLE HOPE by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS GOOD NIGHT by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS MOHAMMED AND SEID by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS THE LONELY BIRD by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS THE FLAME LIGHTS UP by DAVID IGNATOW IN THE GARDEN AT THE DAWN HOUR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE by ROBERT SOUTHEY VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU |
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