FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "By Thine Ouu Lips, O Sea" (1883). A. MS. draft. Box 26 Folder 36 Published as "With Husky- Haughty Lips, O Seal. [*186*] 1884 By Thine Own Lips, O Sea: poem. A.MS. (1 p. 26 x 20½ cm.) Written in ink, with some corrections in pencil, about 300 words of an early draft of the poem beginning "By thine own lips, O Sea', published in Harper's Magazine, March 1884, as 'With Husky- Haughty Lips, O Sea!' and later in 'First Annex: Sands at Seventy'.[*Some mighty Thy of [mighty?] unresponded? love*] [*Some souls vast? & pride*] [*souls vast unresponse*] [Wrung from thy] [Thy] By thine own lips, O Sea [Th] [something thou ? ever seek'st? and gainest not] By thine own lips, O Sea Where, day and night, I wander on the [beach] shore, [C???ing this? seas broad expanse thy r?d?? [?] waves the and breakers?] [Conning the utterance of those liquid tongues] [To tally for] Imaging [in] for my soul thy [grim mysterious] varied [limitless?] [?] suggestions [lesson utterance] [story] [emblems,] [The lengthened swell, the irrepressible rage,] [the many tears,] [What emblems - what suggestions] Some [Thy] troop of white-maned racers, urging to the goal, [the shore,] Some [Thy] vast heart like a planet's, chained and chafing [here] in those [waters,] [? that brine] breakers Some [primitive right withheld - some freedom- lover pent - some tyranny - some deep confession [Something thou ever seek'st and gainest proud? haughty haughty husky] wrung from [within] thy [orbic] breast's [abysses?] at last, O Sea! [Within and deep,] & seek'st at[by day and night, by] [Something thou ever seek'st and gainest not?] [muttered by thee thy soul by involutions? to a kindred soul] [thine own lips O Sea!] [By] With lengthened swell and irrepressible [rage,] groans, and [many tears,] panting breath, [muttered muttered by thee to me thy soul, by ??voluti??s to a kindred soul,] With undertone of muffed lion roar And skreel of whistling wind & hiss of spray [Some cosmic wrong - some chanted] [in thy ?] Some cosmic wrong - some lack [in thy content?] from all eternity, [tale of element] Great as thou art, thy orbic rage, thy many tears, thy [unfulfilledness,] lonely state Something thou [lackest] needest most still unsupplied, [Some cosmic wrong - some] thy chanted tale of elemental passion - thy unfulfilledness Thou seem'st now [here] [here] [for once] confiding to me. lover pentSpecial attention is called to the Winter Arrangement of this House. It is heated throughout by Steam, and has Sun Parlors and Enclosed balconies; also the Ocean Water Bath Department, which is the most complete on the Coast. Magnificent View from the Sheldon House Observatory of Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and the Ocean at Sunrise. SHELDON HOUSE Welcome E. Sheldon, Owner and Manager OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. Ocean Grove, N.J. -- 188