Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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THE SEA AT TERRACINA. |
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THE SEA AT TERRACINA.
Most bright, and beautiful, and gentle Seas,
Caressed by the odourous amourous southern breeze,
Surely had Aphrodite—Heaven-bless'd Fair!
With her celestial eyes and golden hair!—
The sea-born Aphrodite sprang from ye,
She had renounced the Heaven, and in the Sea
Remained—until that golden hair and bright
Had caught the softest hue of sea-green light
Which the long locks of those pure sisters fair—
The Maidens of the Main—so richly wear.
Caressed by the odourous amourous southern breeze,
Surely had Aphrodite—Heaven-bless'd Fair!
With her celestial eyes and golden hair!—
The sea-born Aphrodite sprang from ye,
She had renounced the Heaven, and in the Sea
Remained—until that golden hair and bright
Had caught the softest hue of sea-green light
Which the long locks of those pure sisters fair—
The Maidens of the Main—so richly wear.
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They that in sweet-linked dance pass swimmingly
Through coral fretted grots of the under-sea,
To celebrate their ocean festivals
In their dread Sire's abodes—great Neptune's halls—
Their foam-light locks, curled like the curling spray
That round their soft fair moonlight features play;
Clustered with Sea-flower-victory-wreaths fresh twined—
Dew dropped with pearls, from dim shells disenshrined—
Clustered with glistening Sea-flower-victory-wreathes,—
Whose every leaf an ocean-odour breathes!
Through coral fretted grots of the under-sea,
To celebrate their ocean festivals
In their dread Sire's abodes—great Neptune's halls—
Their foam-light locks, curled like the curling spray
That round their soft fair moonlight features play;
Clustered with Sea-flower-victory-wreaths fresh twined—
Dew dropped with pearls, from dim shells disenshrined—
Clustered with glistening Sea-flower-victory-wreathes,—
Whose every leaf an ocean-odour breathes!
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