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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 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,

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,

And all its wayward undulations blend

In one o’erwhelming surge!