Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FINIS, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL


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First Line: Too soon the harbor light, uncaring, mocks
Last Line: Requiem for the pitiful deserted human clay.


Too soon the harbor light, uncaring, mocks
The tragedy of marble face, of tangled hair;
But the kind bosom of the ocean rocks
All that is left of womanhood, once fair.
Who knows the sorrow in the fast-closed eyes,
The pain unspoken by the silent lips,
The prayers unanswered by the far-off skies?
A careless sea-wave through the soft hair swirls,
Leaps ... splashes ... drips.

Who knows the struggle ere the soul grew faint
With desperate striving for the light of day?
The moaning sea sobs with a weird and sorrowing plaint --
Requiem for the pitiful deserted human clay.





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