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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GLEE - THE GREAT STORM IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: And only the waves reply
Subject(s): Storms; Survival
Last Line: And only the waves reply
Subject(s): Storms; Survival
Glee! the great storm is over!
Four have recovered the land ;
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling sand.
Ring, for the scant salvation!
Toll, for the bonnie souls, -
Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
Spinning upon the shoals !
How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the children ask, "But the forty?
Did they come back no more?"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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