Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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MUSA MARINA, by                    
First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan
Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore?
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


DANCING waves! still the moan
Constant in undertone?
Sparkle and glitter belie your complaint --
Prove that you heave no sigh
To the fair brooding Sky
In this wild music, now loud, and now faint.

Nay, let me deem you strong
To bewail mortal wrong,
Endlessly echoing Nature's distress:
Earth shall forget her pain
Ere Ocean hush his strain
Chiming in sorrow, since powerless to bless.

Ay, and how could ye pause
While everlasting laws
Bid you lure Beauty and Strength to their doom?
Can ye engulph the brave
And with remorse not rave,
Nor chant a requiem over their tomb?

Mourners bedeck dear earth
With Easter's flowery birth;
Ye, sweeping all, rob sad Love of fair scope;
Since ye leave naught but shore,
Till ye our dead restore,
Let Grief's wild symphony blend into Hope!

Musing too by your brink,
Kind Waves, I love to think
Ye lend a voice to my heart's silent wealth --
Shed some wild rainbow tears
For its poor doubts and fears,
Foam with delight when its ill yields to health --

Scarce have I felt a loss
But your despairing toss
Sympathy offers unshared by my race;
Scarce have I known a gain
But a mad hurricane
Sped you to greet me in riotous chase.

Apt to sink, prone to soar,
Now clear, now clouded o'er,
Restless and yet never rampant for long;
So like my spirit, vext
One day and calm the next,
Is it so strange if her tones be your song?

What if ye moan like this,
Plaintive mid seeming bliss,
Failing of peace till the Sea be no more,
That she may heave no vain
Sigh for release from pain,
Tossing this side of Eternity's shore?





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