Love

Sea Love

by Charlotte Mew 1869–1928

From The Farmer's Bride (1921 edition)

LoveNature

Tide be runnin’ the great world over:
T’was only last June month I mind that we
Was thinkin’ the toss and the call in the breast of the lover
So everlastin’ as the sea.

Heer’s the same little fishes that sputter and swim,
Wi’ the moon’s old glim on the grey, wet sand;
An’ him no more to me nor me to him
Than the wind goin’ over my hand.

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In dialect, a woman recalls how she and her lover thought their love as everlasting as the sea. Now he is 'no more to me nor me to him / Than the wind goin' over my hand'.

MLA

Mew, Charlotte. “Sea Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mew/19/.

Chicago

Mew, Charlotte. “Sea Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mew/19/.

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