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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MILTON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold
Last Line: Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674)
First Line: I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold
Last Line: Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674)
I PACE the sounding sea-beach and behold
How the voluminous billows roll and run,
Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun
Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled,
And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold
All its loose-flowing garments into one,
Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun
Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold.
So in majestic cadence rise and fall
The mighty undulations of thy song,
O sightless bard, England's Maeonides!
And ever and anon, high over all
Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong
Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
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