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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INCOMING TIDE, by DORA HAGEMEYER
First Line: How anxiously the waves rush in and break!
Last Line: Disturb and fill with restlessness the soul.
Subject(s): Tides
First Line: How anxiously the waves rush in and break!
Last Line: Disturb and fill with restlessness the soul.
Subject(s): Tides
How anxiously the waves rush in and break!
Unquiet is the tide. Its destiny
Disturbs the rise and fall its motions make
Upon the steel-grey surface of the sea.
The spreading breaker clutches at the sand
As if compelled a higher line to mark;
With ever-eager striving to the land
And ever-frustrate falling to the dark.
What spirit drives the water to new height
Upon unconquered regions of the beach?
Even the gulls are troubled in their flight
As if they too must new horizons reach.
So does the shadow of an unseen goal
Disturb and fill with restlessness the soul.
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