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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETERNAL VIGIL, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Once again upon thy heaving breast Last Line: Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night. | |||
Oh! once again upon thy heaving breast I floated, like a seabird when it braves The shoreward onset of thy flowing waves And leaps triumphant on each rushing crest: Round me in dark magnificent unrest, The billows of the wild Atlantic rolled Far, far away, into the gates of gold, The sunlit portals of the stormy west: O never wearied! In the hush of noon Thy billows break the paths of golden sleep: They break the dreamlike lustre of the moon: Earth knows the hours of darkness: thou dost keep Eternal vigil: still thy surges white Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM SHANNON TO SEA by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES TOO DEEP FOR TEARS by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES A DROP OF DEW by ANDREW MARVELL THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD THE BROOK: SUMMER by LAURA ABELL NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 23 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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