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TO - by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS, IN LONE FAIRY-LANDS, UP SOME RICH SHELF
Last Line: FAR FROM ALL WORDS WHERE LOVE LIES FATHOMLESS.
Subject(s): LOVE; LANGUAGE; WORDS; VOCABULARY;
As, in lone fairy-lands, up some rich shelf
Of golden sand the wild wave moaningly
Heaps its unvalued sea-wealth, weed and gem,
Then creeps back slow into the salt sad sea:
So from my life's new searched deeps to thee,
Beloved, I cast these weed-flowers. Smile on them.
More than they mean I know not to express.
So I shrink back into my old sad self,
Far from all words where love lies fathomless.



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