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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMEROS, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a wave that cannot reach the land
Last Line: Send me not back to death unsatisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
First Line: I am a wave that cannot reach the land
Last Line: Send me not back to death unsatisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
I am a wave that cannot reach the land,
My strength is spent beneath a careless sky,
Only the cruel sea-gulls, cold and high,
Glisten at last upon the restful sand.
I am a wave beneath the tempest's rod,
Voicing the lost mid-ocean's shaken cry,
I am a woman who will live and die
Without the one thing I have craved of God.
I am a harp with over-tightened strings,
Where all the lonely winds of heaven come;
I am a singer, singing far and wide
Who learns from longing all the songs she sings.
God, tho' my joy strike me blind and dumb,
Send me not back to death unsatisfied.
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