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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONNET'S VOICE (A METRICAL LESSON BY THE SEASHORE), by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poet's Biography First Line: Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach Last Line: Back to the deeps of life's tumultuous sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Ocean | |||
YON silvery billows breaking on the beach Fall back in foam beneath the star-shine clear, The while my rhymes are murmuring in your ear A restless lore like that the billows teach; For on these sonnet-waves my soul would reach From its own depths, and rest within you, dear, As, through the billowy voices yearning here, Great nature strives to find a human speech. A sonnet is a wave of melody: From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul A billow of tidal music one and whole Flows in the "octave;" then returning free, Its ebbing surges in the "sestet" roll Back to the deeps of Life's tumultuous sea. | 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 TALK ON WATERLOO BRIDGE; THE LAST NIGHT OF GEORGE BORROW by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON |
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