
INLET AND SHORE.
IMPERSONALITY
A PROTEAN GLIMPSE.
POWER AGAINST POWER. [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864.]
LIFE'S PRIESTESS.
LOVE NOW.
ONE AND ONE.
THE VIOLIN.
GERTRUDE. [In Memory: 1877.]
UNITY IN SPACE.
A tide of lyrical verse washes over the listener, opening with a shimmering portrait of sea and sky where light glints on black hulls and waves echo the colors of a sunrise. The poet’s language moves between the quiet hush of distant waters and the restless thrill of nearer tides, inviting a contemplative pause on the ever‑changing moods of the shore. Each line feels like a shell‑strewn secret, a brief glimpse of the “years” whispered by the sea.
From that outset the collection unfurls into a mosaic of short poems that explore time, power, love, and loss with the same rhythmic cadence. Voices shift—from the introspective wanderer pondering destiny to the mystic wizard wrestling with unseen forces—yet all remain tethered to the same rolling surf. Listeners are carried on a gentle current of thought, finding resonance in the moments where ordinary sight becomes a meditation on the deeper currents that shape our lives.
Language
en
Duration
~41 minutes (40K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Michelle Shephard, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.
Release date
2004-12-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1851–1926
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