Hart Crane - Sea Quotes

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O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

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And through that cordage, threading with its call
One arc synoptic of all tides below –
Their labyrinthine mouths of history
Pouring reply as though all ships at sea
Complighted in one vibrant breath made cry, –
'Make thy love sure – to weave whose song we ply!'

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And biased by full sails, meridians reel Thy purpose — still one shore beyond desire! The sea's green crying towers a-sway, Beyond.

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High in the azure steeps Monody shall not wake the mariner. This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.

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Slagged of the hurricane—I, cast within its flow, Congeal by afternoons here, satin and vacant. You have given me the shell, Satan,—carbonic amulet Sere of the sun exploded in the sea.

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