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A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WIND AND SEA AND CLOUD AND CLOUD-FORSAKING
Last Line: WIND AND SEA.
Subject(s): ROUNDELS; SEA; STORMS; WIND; OCEAN;

WIND and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free
Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of waking
Wind and sea.

Bright with glad mad rapture, fierce with glee,
Laughs the moon, born on past cloud's o'ertaking
Fast, it seems, as wind or sail can flee.

One blown sail beneath her, hardly making
Forth, wild-winged for harborage yet to be
Strives and leaps and pants beneath the breaking
Wind and sea.



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