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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEA-CLIFFS OF KILKEE, by AUBREY DE VERE
First Line: Awfully beautiful art thou, o sea!
Last Line: The precipice, the ocean, and the sky.
Subject(s): Kilkee, Ireland
First Line: Awfully beautiful art thou, o sea!
Last Line: The precipice, the ocean, and the sky.
Subject(s): Kilkee, Ireland
AWFULLY beautiful art thou, O sea!
Viewed from the vantage of these giant rocks
That vast in air lift their primeval blocks,
Screening the sandy cove of lone Kilkee.
Cautious, with outstretched arm and bended knee,
I scan the dread abyss, till the depth mocks
My straining eyeballs, and the eternal shocks
Of billows rolling from infinity
Disturb my brain. Hark! the shrill sea-bird's scream!
Cloud-like they sweep the long wave's sapphire gleam,
Ere the poised osprey stoop in wrath from high.
Here man, alone, is naught; Nature supreme,
Where all is simply great that meets the eye, --
The precipice, the ocean, and the sky.
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