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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAN'S LAST LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore
Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean
First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore
Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean
LIKE the tenth wave, that offers to the shore
Accumulated opulence and force,
So does my heart, which thought it loved of yore,
Carry increasing passion down the course
Of time to proffer thee.
Oh! not the faint
First ripple of the sea should be its pride,
But the great climax of its unrestraint,
Which culminates in one commanding tide.
The lesser billows of each crude emotion
Break on life's strand, recede, and then unite
With love's large sea; and to some late devotion
Unrecognised, they bring their lost delight.
So all the vanished fancies of my past
Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast.
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