Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE QUIET TIDE NEAR ARDROSSAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: On to the beach the quiet waters crept Last Line: That with a whisper deepened all the seas. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
On to the beach the quiet waters crept: But, though I stood not far within the land, No tidal murmur reach'd me from the strand. The mirror'd clouds beneath old Arran slept. I look'd again across the watery waste: The shores were full, the tide was near its height, Though scarcely heard: the reefs were drowning fast, And an imperial whisper told the might Of the outer floods, that pressed into the bay, Though all besides was silent. I delight In the rough billows, and the foam-ball's flight: I love the shore upon a stormy day; But yet more stately were the power and ease That with a whisper deepened all the seas. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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