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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISAPPOINTMENT, by HORACE SMITH Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy! Joy! My lover's bark returns
Last Line: She reels -- she -- sinks -- o heaven! She's gone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Disappointment; Love; Sea; Ocean
First Line: Joy! Joy! My lover's bark returns
Last Line: She reels -- she -- sinks -- o heaven! She's gone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Disappointment; Love; Sea; Ocean
JOY! joy! my lover's bark returns,
I know her by her bearing brave:
How gallantly the foam she spurns,
And bounds in triumph o'er the wave!
Why dost thou veil the glorious sight,
In lurid rain, thou summer cloud?
See! see! the lightning flashes bright!
Hark! to the thunder long and loud!
The storm is past -- the skies are fair,
But where's the bark? -- there was but one: --
Ha! she is yonder, shattered -- bare --
She reels -- she -- sinks -- O Heaven! she's gone!
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