Quote#Solitude
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press
Quote byAlice Meynell · 1847–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1893), "The Visiting Sea", p. 22.
English (original)
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press And reach in further than you know, And fills all these, and when you go, There's loneliness in loneliness.
— Alice Meynell
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