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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 97, by BLISS CARMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: How unutterably lonely
Last Line: Where your lover still must go!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: How unutterably lonely
Last Line: Where your lover still must go!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
How unutterably lonely
Is the vast grey round of sea,
Till the yellow flower of heaven
Breaks and blossoms and gets free,
Lighting up the lilac spaces
With her golden density!
Hope of sailors and of lovers,
Swings the lantern of the sea.
Not the moon it was that lighted
One grey waste of heart I know,
Warmed with loving, touched with magic,
And made molten and aglow,
When your beauty flowered above it
From a twilight soft and slow.
Dearest face that still must beacon
Where your lover still must go!
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