Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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THE LOST ATLANTIS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes
Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean


DEEP in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes
That once gleamed marble-white, pure shafts of stone
With carvings thereupon of cryptic joy
Long, long forgotten; streets submerged, that erst
Were brave with every sign of festal life;
And scented groves that stand for dreams; and near,
Great towers stately builded, palaces
For pleasure-making when the time was May;
All dim in tangles of mermaiden's hair.
The traffic of a world of elder time
Choked potently by water, and engirt
With grewsome shapes and growths beneath the brine.

Deep in our soul-seas, drowned; while present waves
Push down and hide the lost Atlantis, once
So regnant in our Past; and summer sails
Fleet onward toward new western isles, since man
Must ever gear him for new quests, and leave
The mute memorials of the lapsed years.





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