Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIRGE AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! We give thee to the wave Last Line: Sleep! Oh, sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean | ||||||||
SLEEP! -- we give thee to the wave, Red with life-blood from the brave Thou shalt find a noble grave. Fare thee well! Sleep! thy billowy field is won: Proudly may the funeral gun, 'Midst the hush at set of sun, Boom thy knell! Lonely, lonely is thy bed, Never there may flower be shed, Marble reared, or brother's head Bowed to weep. Yet thy record on the sea, Borne through battle high and free, Long the red-cross flag shall be. Sleep! oh, sleep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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