Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EMILY BRONTE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY


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First Line: What sacramental hurt that brings / the terror of the truth of things
Last Line: Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore.
Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery


What sacramental hurt that brings
The terror of the truth of things
Had changed thee? Secret be it yet.
'T was thine, upon a headland set,
To view no isles of man's delight,
With lyric foam in rainbow flight,
But all a-swing, a-gleam, mid slow uproar,
Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore.





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