Sentence:  Thus Burns 's `` My love is like a red , red rose '' and Hopkins ' `` The thunder-purple <WSD>sea</WSD> beach , plumed purple of thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content , hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land