Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893.
In the HarborThe City and the Sea
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“I am faint with heat,—Oh breathe on me!”
To some will be life, to others death!”
In pain, come the Oceanides,
Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came.
Silent as dreams are, and sudden as sleep.
O breath of the merciful, merciless Sea?