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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA-MAGIC; TO R.I., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart faints in me for the distant sea
Last Line: Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Ingpen, Roger; Sea; Ocean
First Line: My heart faints in me for the distant sea
Last Line: Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Ingpen, Roger; Sea; Ocean
My heart faints in me for the distant sea.
The roar of London is the roar of ire
The lion utters in his old desire
For Libya out of dim captivity.
The long bright silver of Cheapside I see,
Her gilded weathercocks on roof and spire
Exulting eastward in the western fire;
All things recall one heart-sick memory: --
Ever the rustle of the advancing foam,
The surges' desolate thunder, and the cry
As of some lone babe in the whispering sky;
Ever I peer into the restless gloom
To where a ship clad dim and loftily
Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home.
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