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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT ANSTEY'S COVE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze inscribes with ring on ring Last Line: She seems the melancholy ghost. | |||
THE breeze inscribes with ring on ring The grizzled oily seas of Spring; Around the headland, gray and pale, Comes, like a ghost, a gliding sail. Through brooding tides I see her come Where once I rowed, where once I swum; Ah! then that weltering water's hue Was rainbow-purple, peacock-blue. She veers and fades; she dies away In gulfs of universal gray; And of my boyhood and its boast She seems the melancholy ghost. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMPRESSION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE LYING IN THE GRASS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE ON A LUTE FOUND IN A SARCOPHAGUS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE REVELATION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE SUPPLIANT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE VANISHING BOAT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE WITH A COPY OF HERRICK by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE 1870-71 by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A DREAM OF NOVEMBER; TO ARTHUR SYMONS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE |
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