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WHERE IS THE SEA?; SONG OF THE GREEK ISLANDER IN EXILE by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS THE SEA? -- I LANGUISH HERE
Last Line: -- WHERE IS MY OWN BLUE SEA?
Subject(s): EXILES; SEA; OCEAN;
WHERE is the sea? -- I languish here --
Where is my own blue sea?
With all its barks in fleet career,
And flags, and breezes free?

I miss that voice of waves which first
Awoke my childhood's glee;
The measured chime -- the thundering burst --
Where is my own blue sea?

Oh! rich your myrtle's breath may rise,
Soft, soft your winds may be;
Yet my sick heart within me dies --
Where is my own blue sea?

I hear the shepherd's mountain flute,
I hear the whispering tree;
The echoes of my soul are mute,
-- Where is my own blue sea?



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