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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: No breath is on the glimmering ocean-floor
Last Line: And soul environing of shadowy sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: No breath is on the glimmering ocean-floor
Last Line: And soul environing of shadowy sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
No breath is on the glimmering ocean-floor,
No blast beneath the windless Pleiades,
But thro' dead night a melancholy roar,
A voice of moving and of marching seas,—
The boom of thundering waters on the shore
Sworn with slow force by desolate degrees
Once to go on, and whelm for evermore
Earth and her folk and all their phantasies.
Then half-asleep in the great sound I seem
Lost in the starlight, dying in a dream
Where overmastering Powers abolish me,—
Drown, and thro' dim euthanasy redeem
My merged life in the living ocean-stream
And soul environing of shadowy sea.
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