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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA HEALING, by HELEN WALLER
First Line: I will not seek in a lowering tide
Last Line: Of broken longing from a gull's white throat.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: I will not seek in a lowering tide
Last Line: Of broken longing from a gull's white throat.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
I will not seek in a lowering tide
Of angry waters rising for the test
Of sea-drawn steel against a vessel's side:
Like fangs of serpents loosed upon the breast
Of Amphitrite, bitterness would be
To one who worshiped, from the still lagoon,
The ordered rhythm of a sleeping sea --
The lingering solace of a summer moon.
The truth that touched this little hill of sand
With healing deeper than the quiet springs
Of memory, lay hidden in your hand.
So I will find you in eternal things,
Far blue horizons and a single note
Of broken longing from a gull's white throat.
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