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HIGH-TIDE by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER

Poet Analysis

First Line: I EDGED BACK AGAINST THE NIGHT
Last Line: she walked the deep fields of the sky
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;
I edged back against the night
The sea growled assault on the wave-bitten shore.
And the breakers,
Like young, impatient hounds,
Sprang with rough joy in the shrinking sand.
Sprang-but were drawn back slowly,
With a long, relentless pull,
Then I saw who held them captive;
And I saw how they were bound
With a long and quivering leash of light,
Held by the moon,
As calm and unsmiling,
she walked the deep fields of the sky.



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