History & Politics
The sea took pity
From Poems (1918)
History & Politics
THE sea took pity: it interposed with doom:
'I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand:
Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb,
And she shall child them on the New-world strand.'
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Codex Note
Unfinished: a fragment.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “The sea took pity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/54/.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “The sea took pity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/54/.
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