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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN NATURE HATH BETRAYED THE HEART THAT LOVED HER, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray waves rock against the gray skyline
Last Line: I cannot bear the still grief of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
First Line: The gray waves rock against the gray skyline
Last Line: I cannot bear the still grief of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
THE gray waves rock against the gray skyline,
And break complaining on the long gray sand,
Here where I sit, who cannot understand
Their voice of pain, nor this dumb pain of mine;
For I, who thought to fare till my days end,
Armed sorrow-proof in sorrow, having known
How hearts bleed slow when brave lips make no moan,
How Life can torture, how Death may befriend
When Love entreats him hasten, -- even I,
Who feared no human anguish that may be,
I cannot bear the loud grief of the sea,
I cannot bear the still grief of the sky.
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