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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SETTING OF THE MOON NEAR CORINTH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poet's Biography
First Line: From that dejected brow in silence beaming
Subject(s): Sea
First Line: From that dejected brow in silence beaming
Subject(s): Sea
FROM that dejected brow in silence beaming
A light it seems too feeble to retain,
A sad calm tearful light through vapours gleaming,
Slowly thou sinkest on the Aegean main;
To me an image, in thy placid seeming
Of some fair mourner who will not complain;
Of one whose cheek is pale, whose eyes are streaming,
Whose sighs are heaved unheard,-not heaved in vain.
And yet what power is thine I as thou dost sink,
Down sliding slow along that azure hollow,
The great collected Deep thy course doth follow,
Amorous the last of those faint smiles to drink;
And all his lifted fleets in thee obey
The symbol of an unpresuming sway!
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