Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE


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First Line: Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder
Last Line: Abreast and ahead?
Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean


ABREAST and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder
With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is shed
As a shadow of death from the wings of the darkness on waters that thunder
Abreast and ahead.

At its edge is a sepulchre hollowed and hown for a lone man's bed,
Propped open with rock and agape on the sky and the sea thereunder,
But roofed and walled in well from the wrath of them slept its dead.

Here might not a man drink rapture of rest, or delight above wonder,
Beholding, a soul disembodied, the days and the nights that fled,
With splendor and sound of the tempest around and above him and under,
Abreast and ahead?





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