Friday, January 3, 2003

From The Sea Comments

Rating: 3.3

All beauty calls you to me, and you seem,
Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea,
To reach me. You are as the wind I breathe
Here on the ship's sun-smitten topmost deck,
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Sara Teasdale
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Unnikrishnan E S 29 December 2021

Part 2. The ideas, metaphors and rhymes come after one another likr tsunami waves in a turbulent ocean, so that I read it in go. So did I transliterate it in just one sitting. Loved doing it. Really. My heart still beaming of its beauty.

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Unnikrishnan E S 29 December 2021

This is one the longest poems of Sara Teasdale. Most of her poems are very short, but definitely crisp. Brevity elevates the beauty of her Love Songs. But this one is very long, and equally beautiful.

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