Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EROS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: The storm of love has burst at last
Last Line: And billow and wallow and undulate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Storms; Eros


THE storm of love has burst at last
Full on me: All the world, before,
Was like an alien, unknown shore
Along whose verge I laughing passed. --
But now -- I laugh not any more, --
Bowed with a silence vast in weight
As that which falls on one who stands
For the first time on ocean sands,
Seeing and feeling all the great
Awe of the waves as they wash the lands
And billow and wallow and undulate.





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