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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM SHANNON TO SEA, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poet's Biography First Line: The shannon bore me to thy bosom wide Last Line: On the long rollers of the open sea. | |||
The Shannon bore me to thy bosom wide: I wandered with it on its winding way By fields of yellow corn and new mown hay, And far blue hills that rose on either side, And low dark woods that fringed the ebbing tide: And ever as its waters neared the west, Out of the slumber of its broadening breast Faint momentary ripples rose and died:-- And rose again before the breeze and grew To wavelets dancing in the noonday light, And these were changed to waves of ocean blue, And creek and headland faded from the sight, And oh! at last--at last I floated free On the long rollers of the open sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ETERNAL VIGIL by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES TOO DEEP FOR TEARS by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA CHANNEL FIRING by THOMAS HARDY WHY THUS LONGING by HARRIET WINSLOW SEWALL THIRTY EIGHT. ADDRESSED TO MRS. H -- Y. by CHARLOTTE SMITH SOUL AND BODY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 21. THE WORLD'S MARRIAGE MORN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TWELVE SONNETS: 10. THY WHITENESS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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