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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STREAM AND THE TARN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping
Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean
First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping
Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean
THE stream came plunging and leaping,
And white was the crash of its glee.
Whence came it, a hunter unsleeping,
In headlong hunt for the sea?
From the silent tarn up yonder! --
The cloistered tarn, that abides
Where the guarding mountains ponder
As they gaze on the far-off tides.
And there, immured from commotion,
The cloistered tarn is at rest,
That has only dreamed of the ocean,
And the heart of pearl in its breast.
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