Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Rye, N. H. | | Voices of the Sea | | Thomas Durfee (1826–1901) |
| | | ON the lone rocks of Rye, | |
| When the day grows dimmer, | |
| And the stars from the sky | |
| Shed a tremulous glimmer, | |
| While the low winds croon, | 5 |
| And the waves, as they glisten, | |
| Complain to the moon, | |
| I linger and listen. | |
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| All the magical whole | |
| Of shadow and splendor | 10 |
| Steals into my soul, | |
| Majestic yet tender; | |
| And the desolate main, | |
| Like a sibyl intoning | |
| Her mystical strain, | 15 |
| Keeps ceaselessly moaning. | |
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| I hear it spell-bound, | |
| All its myriad voices,— | |
| Its wandering sound, | |
| And my spirit rejoices; | 20 |
| For out of the deep | |
| And the distance it crieth, | |
| And, deep unto deep, | |
| My spirit replieth. | | | | |
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