Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PACIFIC, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE PACIFIC, by                    
First Line: The monarch of waters! The giant pacific!
Last Line: And the chaos of change in thy morn rolled away.
Subject(s): Hunting; Pacific Ocean; Treasures; Hunters


The monarch of waters! the giant Pacific!
How dwells he forever in kingly estate!
One mighty hand grasping the Orient hoary,
The other wide-spanning the Golden Gate!
Far beyond the white cliffs of Thor and of Odin,
The centuries' snows are a crown for his head;
Borealis, his torch-bearer, lights his state chambers,
And the icebergs their flame-tinted canopies spread.

To his warm heart he presses his bride with her graces,
Low responses she gives through her forests' deep chimes
To his wooing, in softest tide-cadences uttered,
While their love-tale the minstrel wind bears to all climes.
High lifts she aloft the gigantic Sequoia,
To catch on her brow the smile of his face;
And the moons that are whitest and the suns that are clearest
For ages have looked on their loving embrace.

California, bride of the princely Pacific!
All proudly we gaze on the stores that are thine;
Not the gold that was torn from thy breast with thy crying,
But a greater boon ask from thy treasures' deep mine—
E'en a throb from thy life when thy soul was awaking,
When the darkness was smitten ere dawned had the day;
When the light of the cross with the sabre's flash mingled,
And the chaos of change in thy morn rolled away.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net