The Eternal Sea: An Anthology of Sea PoetryWilliam Martin Williamson Coward-McCann Incorporated, 1946 - 565 pages |
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Page 137
... calm the ocean lay At the bright birth of that celestial day ! How every little vapor , robed in state , Would melt and dissipate Before the augmenting ray , Till the victorious Orb rose unattended , And every billow was his mirror ...
... calm the ocean lay At the bright birth of that celestial day ! How every little vapor , robed in state , Would melt and dissipate Before the augmenting ray , Till the victorious Orb rose unattended , And every billow was his mirror ...
Page 139
... CALM So tame , so languid looks this drowsing sea , With lazy clouds sprawled in the blue above , One might proclaim the salt immensity The soul of peace and love . So tame , so languid ! Can one then believe Rumors of storms that riot ...
... CALM So tame , so languid looks this drowsing sea , With lazy clouds sprawled in the blue above , One might proclaim the salt immensity The soul of peace and love . So tame , so languid ! Can one then believe Rumors of storms that riot ...
Page 141
... Seeking the sunlight , from creation's verge Southward they wander , silent as a thought , And in the Gulf - stream drown and disappear . William Prescott Foster CALM AS THE CLOUDLESS HEAVEN It is the midnight hour CALM , SUNNY SEAS 141.
... Seeking the sunlight , from creation's verge Southward they wander , silent as a thought , And in the Gulf - stream drown and disappear . William Prescott Foster CALM AS THE CLOUDLESS HEAVEN It is the midnight hour CALM , SUNNY SEAS 141.
Contents
THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP | 25 |
OUTWARD BOUND | 55 |
STORMY SEAS | 83 |
Copyright | |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne beauty beneath billows blow blue brave breast breath bright calm Cape Horn captain captain's gig clouds dark dawn deck deep dream drift Epes Sargent eternal eyes flying foam gale gleam glory gray Gulf Stream gulls Hamish Maclaren hand harbor hear heard heart heave heaven Henry Bellamann Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier John Hall Wheelock land leap light Lord mast mighty moon morning never night o'er ocean Poems port reef roar rocks rolling Round Cape Horn sail sailor sand shining ship shore shrouds silent sing skipper sleep song soul sound spars spray stars Stone Fleet storm surge sweep sweet tempest thee There's thou thunder tide topsails vessel voice W. H. Davies watch waters waves whale wild Wilfrid Wilson Gibson wind wings wonder wreck Yo-ho-ho