AWFULLY beautiful art thou, O sea! Viewed from the vantage of these giant rocks That vast in air lift their primeval blocks, Screening the sandy cove of lone Kilkee. Cautious, with outstretched arm and bended knee, I scan the dread abyss, till the depth mocks My straining eyeballs, and the eternal shocks Of billows rolling from infinity Disturb my brain. Hark! the shrill sea-bird's scream! Cloud-like they sweep the long wave's sapphire gleam, Ere the poised osprey stoop in wrath from high. Here man, alone, is naught; Nature supreme, Where all is simply great that meets the eye, -- The precipice, the ocean, and the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 138 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE HOSTESS' DAUGHTER by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND BUDDHA AND BRAHMA by HENRY BROOKS ADAMS OUR SOLDIERS' SANTIAGO SONG by DAVID GRAHAM ADEE SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 5. SHE THINKS OF THE FAITHFUL ONE by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS PORTRAIT BY PICHER by FRANCES BAKER SOLILOQUIES OF A SMALL-TOWN TAXI-DRIVER: ON THE WRITING OF POETRY by EDGAR BARRATT |