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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA GODS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you will come Last Line: And cherish and shelter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean | |||
For you will come, you will yet haunt men in ships, you will trail across the fringe of strait and circle the jagged rocks. You will trail across the rocks and wash them with your salt, you will curl between sand-hills -- you will thunder along the cliff; -- break -- retreat -- get fresh strength -- gather and pour weight upon the beach. You will draw back, and the ripple on the sand-shelf will be witness of your track. O privet-white, you will paint the lintel of wet sand with froth. You will bring myrrh-bark and drift laurel-wood from hot coasts! when you hurl high -- high -- we will answer with a shout. For you will come, you will come, you will answer our taut hearts, you will break the lie of men's thoughts, and cherish and shelter us. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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