Eugene Lee-Hamilton

thumb|Eugene Lee-Hamilton Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. Quotes Fourteen small broidered berries on the hernOf Circe's mantle, each of magic gold;Fourteen of lone Calypso's tears that rolledInto the sea, for pearls to come to them;Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gemWith which Medea human fate foretoldFourteen small drops, which Fautus, growing old,Craved of the Fiend, to water Life's stem From What the Sonnet Is. To keep through life the posture of the grave,While others walk and run and dance and leap. Sonnets of the Wingless Hours (1894). The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stoodOn dusty shelves, when held against the earProclaims its stormy parent, and we hearThe faint, far murmur of the breaking flood.We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the bloodIn our own veins, impetuous and near. Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the whole sea's speech", Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Hints; "I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear / And plain thou'lt hear / Tales of ships", Charles Henry Webb, With a Nantucket Shell. External links Two poems of Lee-Hamilton Category:Poets from England Category:1907 deaths