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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OCEAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: The ocean at the bidding of the moon
Last Line: A tutelar fond voice, a saviour-tone of love!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: The ocean at the bidding of the moon
Last Line: A tutelar fond voice, a saviour-tone of love!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
The Ocean, at the bidding of the Moon,
For ever changes with his restless tide;
Flung shoreward now, to be regather'd soon
With kingly pauses of reluctant pride,
And semblance of return. Anon from home
He issues forth again, high ridged and free;
The gentlest murmur of his seething foam,
Like armies whispering where great echoes be!
Oh! leave me here upon this beach to rove,
Mute listener to that sound so grand and lone -
A glorious sound, deep-drawn and strongly thrown,
And reaching those on mountain heights above;
To British ears, as who shall scorn to own,
A tutelar fond voice, a saviour-tone of love!
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CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS
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