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LINCOLNSHIRE SHORES (AT MABLETHORPE) by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE OFTEN, WHEN A CHILD, I LAY RECLINED
Last Line: DIM SHORES, DENSE RAINS, AND HEAVY-CLOUDED SEA!
Subject(s): SEASHORE; BEACH; COAST; SHORE;
HERE often, when a child I lay reclined,
I took delight in this locality.
Here stood the infant Ilion of the mind,
And here the Grecian ships did seem to be.
And here again I come, and only find
The drain-cut levels of the marshy lea, --
Gray sea - banks and pale sunsets, -- dreary wind,
Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy-clouded sea!





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