Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: III. Places | | Newport-Beach | | Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) |
| | | WAVE after wave successively rolls on | |
| And dies along the shore, until more loud | |
| One billow with concentrate force is heard | |
| To swell prophetic, and exultant rears | |
| A lucent form above its pioneers, | 5 |
| And rushes past them to the farthest goal. | |
| Thus our unuttered feelings rise and fall, | |
| And thought will follow thought in equal waves, | |
| Until reflection nerves design to will, | |
| Or sentiment o’er chance emotion reigns, | 10 |
| And all its wayward undulations blend | |
| In one o’erwhelming surge! | | | | |
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