Mare Placido by Marie Van Vorst
The speaker addresses a beloved “Spirit” whose peaceful influence calms the speaker’s inner sea. Though that sea has known tossing tumult and storms, the beloved’s love creates a serene, cloudless, windless expanse in which ships reach safe harbours beyond a rose-coloured horizon. The speaker foresees the sea yielding its hidden treasure and becoming tranquil enough to reflect the evening star, clouds, and moon. In its final calm, as though no storm had ever existed, the speaker’s sea will mirror the beloved’s soul.
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1908 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Spiritual Poetry · 121 words
First lines
Across the tossing tumult of my sea / The peaceful current of your Spirit flows. / The ships attain their harbours, enter free / Beyond the pale horizon's line of rose. / Tempests are banished from these miles serene: / Held cloud-free, wind-free, by your love's control, / My sea shall yield its deep-bed treasure soon! / Mirror the evening star, -- the cloud, -- the moon: / Tranquil, as tho' no storm had ever been -- / My sea shall be the mirror of your soul.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1908 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Spiritual Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Sonnet
- Length: 121 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a compact, highly musical poem focused on a single emotional and spiritual state, using rhythmic lines, rhyme, and concentrated imagery rather than narrative development.
- Love Poetry — It addresses a beloved 'you' whose love calms the speaker's inner turmoil, presenting devotion, emotional refuge, and intimate idealization.
- Spiritual Poetry — The reference to the beloved's 'Spirit,' along with imagery of peace, deliverance, and a soul reflected in tranquil water, gives the poem a devotional and transcendent quality.
- Romantic Poetry — The poem employs romantic conventions of intense feeling, idealized love, nature symbolism, and the correspondence between an inward emotional landscape and the external sea.
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