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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A THOUGHT OF THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My earliest memories to thy shores are bound
Last Line: "to that sole changeless world, where ""there is no more sea."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean
First Line: My earliest memories to thy shores are bound
Last Line: "to that sole changeless world, where ""there is no more sea."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean
MY earliest memories to thy shores are bound,
Thy solemn shores, thou ever-chanting main!
The first rich sunsets, kindling thought profound
In my lone being, made thy restless plain
As the vast, shining floor of some dread fane,
All paved with glass and fire. Yet, O blue deep!
Thou that no trace of human hearts dost keep,
Never to thee did love with silvery chain
Draw my soul's dream, which through all nature sought
What waves deny, -- some bower of steadfast bliss,
A home to twine with fancy, feeling, thought,
As with sweet flowers. But chastened hope for this
Now turns from earth's green valleys, as from thee,
To that sole changeless world, where "there is no more sea."
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