Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath Last Line: And self begin to be. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean | ||||||||
Shut fast again in Beauty's sheath Where ancient forms renew, The round world seems above, beneath, One wash of faintest blue, And air and tide so stilly sweet In nameless union lie, The little far-off fishing fleet Goes drifting up the sky. Secure of neither misted coast Nor ocean undefined, Our flagging sail is like the ghost Of one that served mankind, Who in the void, as we upon This melancholy sea, Finds labour and allegiance done, And Self begin to be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS A FRIEND'S SONG FOR SIMOISIUS by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY |
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