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A SEA MAIDEN by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG

Poet Analysis

First Line: FACE-DOWN WAS I UPON A SEA
Last Line: WHICH RIPPLED ME TO SLEEP.
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;

Face-down was I upon a sea,
And not a planet swung in space
Could mark a form that under me
Rose to my embrace.

What face I kissed, no moons disclose;
My eager lips drank in the deep,
And vast, mysterious limbs were those
Which rippled me to sleep.



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