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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TUTELAGE, by ROBERT MOWRY BELL First Line: In the coiled shell sounds ocean's distant roar Last Line: "life ruled by love nor dies nor dissipates." | |||
IN the coiled shell sounds Ocean's distant roar, Oft to our listening hearts come heavenly strains; -- Men say, "That was the blood in our own veins, And this, -- but the echo of our hope; no more." And yet, the murmuring sea exists, which bore That frail creation o'er its watery plains; And on Time's sands full many a shell remains Tossed by Eternity upon its shore. Its tongue our hope from Nature's self has caught. Matter nor force is lost as aeons roll. And mind? -- Love life conserves and death abates, -- Through the long ages this has nature taught. Under the stars she plights the wistful soul: "Life ruled by Love nor dies nor dissipates." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER by LI PO EPIGRAMS: BOOK I, 1 by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS ODES III, 29 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA by PHILLIS WHEATLEY TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS HASCHEESH by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PSALM 84 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE A LYRIC OF AUTUMN by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |
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