Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks | ||||||||
SLOW sloping to its point pyramidal, A brown rock rises from the ocean waste; Seaward, great billows there incessant haste And to their shoreward brethren flash and call. I see the vast horizon rise and fall, As when my blood with many raptures raced; And on that pointed rock, by heaven embraced, I see a maiden lifted over all. As shines the rose above inferior flowers, So sprang her beauty up, supreme to be; As comes the rainbow on departing showers, So bloomed and faded that fair memory; So stood she 'on the top of happy hours,' And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STONE'S SECRET by MARGARET AVISON CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH NAMING FOR LOVE by HAYDEN CARRUTH OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE by ROBERT FROST THE EYE IN THE ROCK by JOHN HAINES THE HEAD ON THE TABLE by JOHN HAINES AT GIBRALTAR by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |
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