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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean | |||
Douarnenez! Douarnenez! O little town on the fishing bay! O southern sea, too soft, too blue, Let me thro'! let me thro'! Till the green and the cold of the western sea And the lonely cliffs of Brittany And home, my home, Douarnenez, Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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