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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEA HOLD, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is large
Last Line: The sea must know more than any of us.
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Sea; Ocean
First Line: The sea is large
Last Line: The sea must know more than any of us.
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Sea; Ocean
THE sea is large.
The sea hold on a leg of land in the Chesapeake hugs an early sunset
and a last morning star over the oyster beds and the late clam boats
of lonely men.
Five white houses on a half-mile strip of land ... five white dice
rolled from a tube.
Not so long ago ... the sea was large...
And to-day the sea has lost nothing ... it keeps all.
I am a loon about the sea.
I make so many sea songs, I cry so many sea cries, I forget so many
sea songs and sea cries.
I am a loon about the sea.
So are five men I had a fish fry with once in a tar-paper shack
trembling in a sand storm.
The sea knows more about them than they know themselves.
They know only how the sea hugs and will not let go.
The sea is large.
The sea must know more than any of us.
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