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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET ON TYRE: 2, by MARY HOWITT Poet's Biography First Line: I looked again - I saw a lonely shore Last Line: He might not deem this shore the shore he sought. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary | |||
I looked again -- I saw a lonely shore; A rock amid the waters, and a waste Of trackless sand: I heard the bleak sea's roar, And winds that rose and fell with gusty haste. There was one scathed tree, by storm defaced, Round which the sea-birds wheeled with screaming cry. Ere long came on a traveller, slowly paced: Now east, then west, he turn'd with curious eye, Like one perplexed with an uncertainty. A while he looked upon the sea, -- and then Upon a book as if it might supply The thing he lack'd: -- he read and gazed again -- Yet as if unbelief so on him wrought, He might not deem this shore the shore he sought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SPIDER AND THE FLY by MARY HOWITT THE USE OF FLOWERS by MARY HOWITT A SWINGING SONG by MARY HOWITT BIRDS IN SUMMER by MARY HOWITT ENGLISH CHURCHES by MARY HOWITT MOUNTAIN CHILDREN by MARY HOWITT |
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