Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Dieppe | | At Dieppe | | William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
| | | THE SHIVERING column of the moonlight lies | |
| Upon the crumbling sea; | |
| Down the lone shore the flying curlew cries | |
| Half humanly. | |
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| With hoarse, dull wash the backward dragging surge | 5 |
| Its rancid pebbles rakes, | |
| Or swelling dark runs down with toppling verge, | |
| And flashing breaks. | |
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| The lighthouse flares and darkens from the cliff, | |
| And stares with lurid eye | 10 |
| Fiercely along the sea and shore, as if | |
| Some foe to spy. | |
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| What knowing thought, O ever-moaning sea, | |
| Haunts thy perturbéd breast,— | |
| What dark crime weighs upon thy memory | 15 |
| And spoils thy rest? | |
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| Thy soft swell lifts and swings the new-launched yacht | |
| With polished spars and deck, | |
| But crawls and grovels where the bare ribs rot | |
| Of the old wreck. | 20 |
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| O treacherous courtier! thy deceitful lie | |
| To youth is gayly told, | |
| But in remorse I see thee cringingly | |
| Crouch to the old. | | | | |
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