Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRIGHTON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography First Line: Her brave sea-bulwarks builded strong Last Line: "and trust the darkness and the sea?" Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Brighton, England | ||||||||
I HER brave sea-bulwarks builded strong No tides uproot, no storms appal; By sea-blown tamarisks the throng Of idlers pace her broad sea-wall; Rain-plashed the long-lit pavements gleam; Still press the gay groups to and fro; Dark midnight deepens; on they stream; The wheels, the clattering horses go. II But that wave-limit close anear, Which kissed at morn the children's play, With dusk becomes a phantom fear, Throws in the night a ghostly spray: O starless waste! remote despair! Deep-weltering wildness, pulsing gloom! As tho' the whole world's heart was there, And all the whole world's heart a tomb. III Eternal sounds the waves' refrain; "Eternal night,"they moan and say, "Eternal peace, eternal pain, Press close upon your dying day. Who, who at once beyond the bound, What world-worn soul will rise and flee, Leave the crude lights and clamorous sound, And trust the darkness and the sea?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FEMALE EXILE. WRITTEN AT BRIGHTELMSTONE IN NOVEMBER 1792 by CHARLOTTE SMITH WINTER IN BRIGHTON by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS VERSES ON BATHING AT BRIGHTON, SUSSEX by UNKNOWN ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS SAINT PAUL: 1 by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS SIMMENTHAL by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A CHILD OF THE AGE by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A COSMIC HISTORY by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A COSMIC OUTLOOK by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A CRY FROM THE STALLS by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS |
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