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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here room and kingly silence keep Last Line: Their ghosts illume my lurid west. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore | |||
HERE room and kingly silence keep Companionship in state austere; The dignity of death is here, The large, lone vastness of the deep; Here toil has pitched his camp to rest: The west is banked against the west. Above you gleaming skies of gold One lone imperial peak is seen; While gathered at his feet in green Ten thousand foresters are told: And all so still! so still the air That duty drops the web of care. Beneath the sunset's golden sheaves The awful deep walks with the deep, Where silent sea doves slip and sweep, And commerce keeps her loom and weaves. The dead red men refuse to rest; Their ghosts illume my lurid West. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS EASTERN LONG ISLAND by MARVIN BELL THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST by JOSEPH CERAVOLO IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF by LUCILLE CLIFTON GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING by MADELINE DEFREES POWER FAILURE by MADELINE DEFREES A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER |
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