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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO POINTS OF VIEW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography
First Line: Terrible waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus
Last Line: The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain.
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Storms; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean
First Line: Terrible waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus
Last Line: The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain.
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Storms; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean
TERRIBLE waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus
Ye threaten the frail vessel to entomb;
Still darker than the fearful storm-cloud o'er us,
Your yawning gulfs of death-portending gloom.
Beautiful waves! In joyous freedom dancing,
Ye burst like living things upon the strand;
Your snowy crests in the pure sunlight glancing,
Flash like a vision bright of fairy-land.
Oh, such are trials! All Earth's sons and daughter
Feel in them awful messengers of ire,
More dark and dread than ocean's troubled waters;
Death, and not Life, their horrors aye inspire.
Not so in Heaven! On that shore of gladness
Each past grief seems a blessing, and each pain
Hath lost the midnight hues of earthborn sadness,—
The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain.
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