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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 11. HAMBURG, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The day that I come home
Last Line: Beating under the foam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Homecoming
First Line: The day that I come home
Last Line: Beating under the foam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Homecoming
The day that I come home,
What will you find to say,--
Words as light as foam
With laughter light as spray?
Yet say what words you will
The day that I come home;
I shall hear the whole deep ocean
Beating under the foam.
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