151. O listen to the sounding sea. George William Curtis. Yale Book of American Verse

Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

George William Curtis. 1824–1892

151. "O listen to the sounding sea"

O LISTEN to the sounding sea
That beats on the remorseless shore,
O listen! for that sound will be
When our wild hearts shall beat no more.

O listen well and listen long!	5
For sitting folded close to me,
You could not hear a sweeter song
Than that hoarse murmur of the sea.