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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORE THAN SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: The noisy fire, / the drumming wind
Last Line: Of the heart's breaking seas.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: The noisy fire, / the drumming wind
Last Line: Of the heart's breaking seas.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
THE noisy fire,
The drumming wind,
The creaking trees,
And all that hum
Of summer air
And all the long inquietude
Of breaking seas———
Sweet and delightful are
In loneliness.
But more than these
The quiet light
From the morn's sun
And night's astonished moon,
Falling gently upon breaking seas.
Such quietness
Another beauty is—
Ah, and those stars
So gravely still
More than light, than beauty pour
Upon the strangeness
Of the heart's breaking seas.
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