The Eternal Sea: An Anthology of Sea PoetryWilliam Martin Williamson Coward-McCann Incorporated, 1946 - 565 pages |
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... thunder and the sunshine , and opposed Free hearts , free foreheads , -you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil . Death closes all ; but something ere the end , Some work of noble note , may yet be done , Not ...
... thunder and the sunshine , and opposed Free hearts , free foreheads , -you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil . Death closes all ; but something ere the end , Some work of noble note , may yet be done , Not ...
Page 85
... Thunder , " Cut away the mast ! " So we shuddered there in silence , - For the stoutest held his breath , While the hungry sea was roaring , And the breakers talked with Death . As thus we sat in darkness , Each one busy in his prayers ...
... Thunder , " Cut away the mast ! " So we shuddered there in silence , - For the stoutest held his breath , While the hungry sea was roaring , And the breakers talked with Death . As thus we sat in darkness , Each one busy in his prayers ...
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... thunder above us , You who have trysted afar in golden and fabulous lands , Shall I watch you feeding the doves in a landsman's dooryard ? Sweeping a landsman's hearth with a seaman's hands ? And what have you left to say to your inland ...
... thunder above us , You who have trysted afar in golden and fabulous lands , Shall I watch you feeding the doves in a landsman's dooryard ? Sweeping a landsman's hearth with a seaman's hands ? And what have you left to say to your inland ...
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