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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath
Last Line: And self begin to be.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean
First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath
Last Line: And self begin to be.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean
Shut fast again in Beauty's sheath
Where ancient forms renew,
The round world seems above, beneath,
One wash of faintest blue,
And air and tide so stilly sweet
In nameless union lie,
The little far-off fishing fleet
Goes drifting up the sky.
Secure of neither misted coast
Nor ocean undefined,
Our flagging sail is like the ghost
Of one that served mankind,
Who in the void, as we upon
This melancholy sea,
Finds labour and allegiance done,
And Self begin to be.
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