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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MARINE, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL
First Line: You would have been as quiet as this sea
Last Line: Nothing but ocean and the empty sky.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: You would have been as quiet as this sea
Last Line: Nothing but ocean and the empty sky.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
You would have been as quiet as this sea
Where no waves lap tonight upon the shore;
Where no surf breaks aloud, and silently
You would have watched the gulls, as once before,
Or pointed the horizon, brimming full --
An ocean bowl beneath a windless air,
Where tides without a ripple move the pull
Of hidden surges, welling slowly there.
But you are gone; this peace alone remains,
Smoothing the waveless sea, the quiet sand
Into a scene on canvas -- lustered plains
Of level water, dune and rocky land;
And we who seek a meaning can descry
Nothing but ocean and the empty sky.
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