AWFULLY beautiful art thou, O sea! Viewed from the vantage of these giant rocks That vast in air lift their primeval blocks, Screening the sandy cove of lone Kilkee. Cautious, with outstretched arm and bended knee, I scan the dread abyss, till the depth mocks My straining eyeballs, and the eternal shocks Of billows rolling from infinity Disturb my brain. Hark! the shrill sea-bird's scream! Cloud-like they sweep the long wave's sapphire gleam, Ere the poised osprey stoop in wrath from high. Here man, alone, is naught; Nature supreme, Where all is simply great that meets the eye, -- The precipice, the ocean, and the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR COUNTRY'S CALL by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY by ROBERT BURNS LOUIS XV by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) TO A BIRCH TREE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING BEVERLY SHORE IN WINTER by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON |