Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 3, by BLISS CARMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the sense and semblance Last Line: When thou shalt be no more. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
Thou art the sense and semblance Of things that never were, The meaning of a sunset, The tenor of a star. Thou art the trend of morning, The burden of June's prime, The twilight's consolation, The innocence of time. Thou art the phrase for gladness God coined when he was young, The fare-thee-well to sadness By stars of morning sung, The lyric revelation To rally and rebuoy The darker earth's half sinking Temerity of joy. Out of the hush and hearkening Of the reverberant sea, Some happier golden April Might fashion things like thee. Or if one heart-beat faltered In oblivion's drum-roll, That perfect idle moment Might be thy joyous soul. And the long waves of sorrow Will search and find no shore In all the seas of being, When thou shalt be no more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A MORE ANCIENT MARINER by BLISS CARMAN |
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