Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO SONGS: FIRST SONG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me die by the sea! Last Line: Oh! Fate, let me die by the sea. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
LET me die by the sea! When his billows are haughty and high, And the storm-wind's abroad, -- When his dark passion grasps at the sky With the power of a god, -- When all his fierce forces are free -- Let me die by the sea. Let me die by the sea! To his rhythms of tempest and rain, I would pass from the earth, Through death that is travail and pain, Through death that is birth; 'Mid the thunders of waves and of lea, Let me die by the sea. Let me die by the sea! When the great deeps are sundered and stirred, And the night cometh fast, Let my spirit mount up like a bird, On the wings of the blast. O'er the tumults of wave and of lea, O'er their ravage and roar, She would soar, she would soar, Where peace waits her at last: Oh! Fate, let me die by the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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