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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EBB AND FLOW, by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS First Line: I walked beside the evening sea Last Line: "it said -- ""dream on!"" and ""dream no more!" | |||
I WALKED beside the evening sea, And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only -- "Dreamer, dream no more!" But still the legions charged the beach; Loud rang their battle-cry, like speech; But changed was the imperial strain: It murmured -- "Dreamer, dream again!" I homeward turned from out the gloom, -- That sound I heard not in my room; But suddenly a sound, that stirred Within my very breast, I heard. It was my heart, that like a sea Within my breast beat ceaselessly: But like the waves along the shore, It said -- "Dream on!" and "Dream no more!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUTURE LIFE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT IN HOSPITAL: 4. BEFORE by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE RUNES ON WELAND'S SWORD by RUDYARD KIPLING THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 19. SILENT NOON by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE PALM TREE by ABD-AR RAHMAN I A TURKISH LEGEND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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