SEA beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand, Here ivory smooth, here cloven and ridged with flow Of channelled waters soft as rain or snow, Stretch their lone length at ease beneath the bland Gray gleam of skies whose smile on wave and strand Shines weary like a man's who smiles to know That now no dream can mock his faith with show, Nor cloud for him seem living sea or land. Is there an end at all of all this waste, These crumbling cliffs defeatured and defaced, These ruinous heights of sea-sapped walls that slide Seaward with all their banks of bleak blown flowers Glad yet of life, ere yet their hope subside Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LATAKIA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ON THE LATE S.T. COLERIDGE by WASHINGTON ALLSTON LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE GREAT BLACK CROW by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY OUR MORNING GLORY by LEVI BISHOP |