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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OCEAN Matches Found: 1397 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "I'M GOING FOR A SOLDIER, JENNY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "jenny, look unto your own" Subject(s): Love;sea;soldiers; Ocean "OH, DON'T I LOVE MY BILLY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At cruel fate I am a railer Last Line: For the sake of billy Subject(s): Love;sailing & Sailors;sea; Ocean "THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain Last Line: O' respond both land and sea Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breasts of white camellias lead the way Last Line: "that soothe her with an echoed, ""innocent." Subject(s): Camellias; Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Ocean 534, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean 95 POEMS: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maggie and milly and molly ad may Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A BALLAD AT PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea to sea that clasps and fosters england, uttering evermore Last Line: Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea. Subject(s): England; Sea; English; Ocean A BALLAD OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face Last Line: And the other on to her grave. Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean A BALLAD SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High beyond the granite portal arched across Last Line: On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A BALLAD WITH A SERIOUS CONCLUSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowd about me, little children Last Line: "would have run the other way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Childhood; Ocean A CAPTAIN OF THE PRESS-GANG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmate, leave the ghostly shadows Last Line: Are the masters of the world. Subject(s): Press Gangs; Sea; Ocean A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A DARK NIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I long to pull the old man in Last Line: How dark it is; how far I am from shore. Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A DIRGE FOR THE DEEP-SEA TRAWLER, by THOMAS EKENHEAD MAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the rolling humber Last Line: To the sullen humber's flow. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afric, winged with death and fire Last Line: Life yearns for solace toward the sea. Subject(s): August; Sea; Wind; Ocean A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A DROP OF ANY SEA ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread Last Line: And gave himself till dark pools held him dead. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Sea; World; Ocean A FLAKE OF FOAM, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In the seething foam I am tossed on the height of the waves Last Line: Oh! The turquoise sky that I love! Subject(s): Bubbles; Sea; Water; Ocean A FORSAKEN GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland Last Line: Death lies dead. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean A GLIMPSE OF OCEAN, by F. H. MCMAHON Poem Text First Line: Down from the crest of one great oak Last Line: Before he comes to die. Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean A GRAVE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Man looking into the sea Last Line: In which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Variant Title(s): A Graveyard Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sea; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean A GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beats the unrestful sea some ice-clad isle Last Line: The great voiced city's roar of fretful life. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean A GREEN WAVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the salt sea-send before Last Line: With plumes from the grey clouds that fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Wind; Ocean A GREYPORT LEGEND, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ran through the streets of the seaport town Last Line: Drawing the soul to its anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of neptune's empire let us sing Last Line: The praise of neptune's empery. Variant Title(s): A Hymn In Praise Of Neptune Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Praise; Sea; Ocean A HYMN OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is mighty, but a mightier sways Last Line: The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary day rins down and dies Last Line: The graves wherein we lie. Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A LADY PRAYETH THE RETURN OF HER LOVER ABIDING ON THE SEAS, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I thus ever long, and be no whit the near? Last Line: That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so! Variant Title(s): To Her Sea-faring Lover Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke. Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean A LIFE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my ancient sea-blood say Last Line: The dim marge of god's outer sea. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean A LOST LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summer ago when he left me here Last Line: Good-by, my lover; good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Lost Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sea; Summer; Ocean A MAN'S LAST LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean A MARINER'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though now we are sluggish and lazy on the shore Last Line: In his cruise o'er the waters, the top of the wave. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by CHARLES OTIS JUDKINS Poem Text First Line: I come from the depths of the mountain Last Line: Of my mother, the sky-tinted ocean. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Last Line: Wind and sea. Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Storms; Wind; Ocean A NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A NORTHERN VIGIL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the gray north sea Last Line: Another dawn on the world! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A PASSER-BY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, o splendid ship, thy white sails crowding Last Line: In the offing scatterest foam, thy white sails crowding. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean A PICTURE, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long surges of the summer sea Last Line: Lulled in eternal sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A POEM OF THE SEA, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When others voice their passion for the sea Last Line: For I am dumb! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Outside my window howls the wind Last Line: May find his way to shore. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A PSALM OF THE WATERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This is a psalm of the waters Last Line: Cries, enter, and share with thy servant! Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Water; Ocean A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUESTION: AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dark the clouds that hide the sky from sight Last Line: And know ourselves the one thing not undone? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A REFLECTION AT SEA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how, beneath the moonbeam's smile Last Line: Thus melts into eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SABBATH MORNING AT SEA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ship went on with solemn face Last Line: To the full godhead's burning. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sea; Sunday; Ocean A SAILOR'S SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the breath of the briny deep Last Line: A slide o'er the side, and rest at last. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SAILOR'S YARN, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale that was told to me Last Line: As would go and lie to a poor marine. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SEA BALLAD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the sea, is that the sea? Last Line: "god without pity! O son, little son!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet Last Line: My mermaiden! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean A SEA DIALOGUE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My antinetta, though thou be Last Line: That ever after firmer grows. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA DIALOGUE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much Last Line: Ay, ay, sir! Stiddy, sir! Sou'wes'b'sou'! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the slow tides go and come Last Line: Behind him save the song he sung. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA MAIDEN, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face-down was I upon a sea Last Line: Which rippled me to sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wet sheet and a flowing sea Last Line: Our heritage the sea. Variant Title(s): At Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the days before the high tide Last Line: Sounds of many waters be?' Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A SEA SONG, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: Dizzy with hurrying to and fro Last Line: And the youth of my heart was the youth of the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Follow on the track of the west wind, seaward swinging Last Line: Oh! When the winds turn home again we'll come again to you. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolphins under and sea-gulls over Last Line: Back to the heart of the long denied! Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Singing & Singers; Ocean A SEA SONG (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor far nor near grew shrub nor tree Last Line: Until the world was left behind. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, make for me a little song Last Line: That soundless, sailless, solemn sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA STORY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. A while ago Last Line: This day upon the sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SEA-MARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rains have left the sea-blanks ill to climb Last Line: Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time. Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Time; Ocean A SEA-PRAYER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of wind and water Last Line: Sea-lord -- all are thine. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Ho! Last Line: Though I never sailed back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree Last Line: And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Supernatural; Ocean A SEASHORE IDYL, by ELLEN W. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Atlantic, by the sea we stand Last Line: Alluding to the wild—wild waves. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Waves; Ocean A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SIGH OF THE SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it?' once the ocean asked Last Line: "but god, whose own am I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SOLITUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand Last Line: Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER, 1852, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Push hard across the sand Last Line: The kingdoms are less by three. Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Order: 1852 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Ocean A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A SONG OF THE ENGLISH, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is our lot - o goodly is our heritage! Last Line: As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the earth! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you ever told the legend old Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves." Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A SUB-MARINE CITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their golden summits in the noonday light Last Line: Accordant to the melancholy waves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean A THOUGHT OF THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My earliest memories to thy shores are bound Last Line: "to that sole changeless world, where ""there is no more sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air Last Line: Of an april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A VENETIAN SUNSET: BEFORE A CHANGE (RETURNING FROM TORCELLO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In violet hues each dome and spire Last Line: Fan-like, from venice to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Venice, Italy; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A VISION OF THE SEA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the terror of tempest. The rags of the sail Last Line: Whilst -- Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A VOYAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn till night one only change have we Last Line: We see a ship, and then we ship a sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean A WILD NIGHT, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm is sweeping o'er the land Last Line: That struggle with the sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A WINTER SEA, by GRACE R. LLOYD Poem Text First Line: I love the sea, its mystery Last Line: On my snow-blocked new england farm. Subject(s): Sea; Winter; Ocean A WINTER SEA, by WALTER RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A breath / then a growl Last Line: Its death. Subject(s): Sea; Yale University; Ocean A WORD FOR THE NATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word across the water Last Line: Kings, princes, and slaves. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Nations; Sea; Ocean A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean ACROSS THE SEA, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk'd in the lonesome evening Last Line: As I look across the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean ACROSS THE SEA OF LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gazed into a maiden's eyes Last Line: Engulfed in glory light. Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou vast ocean! Ever-sounding sea! Last Line: Eternity -- eternity -- and power. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ADMIRALS ALL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Effingham, grenville, raleigh, drake Last Line: To nelson's peerless name! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea; English Navy; Ocean ADVENTURE AT MIDNIGHT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching, on piers, exuberant travelers Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not made for me Last Line: That were shaken for me and you? Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean AFTER 1918, by HARRISON HIRES Poem Text First Line: Into the gray mist I went dreaming Last Line: The world from passion and madness spent. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sky; Thought; Nightmares; Ocean; Thinking AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That night the loud voice of the sea was roaring Last Line: The muffled onset of embattled shades. Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean AFTER READING 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA', by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the hunt by holt and field Last Line: Than be alive to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Sea; Ocean AFTER THE GALE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not walked upon the shore Last Line: Dapple in france the fertile plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Variant Title(s): Upon The Shore Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AFTERNOON, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust of yesterday Last Line: And bitter, burning tears. Subject(s): Afternoon; Sea; Tears; Youth; Ocean AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned Last Line: And the little child go free! Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean ALL DAY LONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long in fog and wind Last Line: Against the palisades of adamant. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ALLEGORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that pass so swiftly o'er the downs Last Line: Must in the end be borne beyond the shore. Subject(s): Clouds; Fables; Fate; Sea; Allegories; Destiny; Ocean ALOHA, AINA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father knocked Last Line: Even here, far away as I live Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hawaii; Home; Pacific Ocean ALONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked I stood on the soft shingle of sand Subject(s): Memory; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean ALONE FOR THE FIFTH DAY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at the ocean for a long time, the blue Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Ocean ALONG SHORE, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: What wondrous sermons these seas preach to men! Last Line: They rocked the infant time! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight. Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs AMORETTI: 34, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lyke as a ship, that through the ocean wyde Last Line: In secret sorrow and sad pensivenesse. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AMORIS EXSUL: 3. IN THE BAY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-gulls whiten and dip Last Line: And I would that my ship went down within sight of the shore! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 2. TIDING, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the tides of april Last Line: And white, and fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Spring; Tides; Ocean AN ENGLISHMAN'S SEA-DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there are certain things - as a spider, a ghost" Last Line: We're returning from the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN OLD DREAM, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sang that song beside an olden sea Last Line: The rapture of sea-dreams and memories. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in? Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING Poem Text First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ANOTHER TO NEPTUNE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty neptune, may it please Last Line: Offer'd up, with thanks to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ANY OTHER TIME, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of us play our very best game Last Line: Any other time! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lies; Sea; Wine; Ocean APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean APIA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye isles samoan, fatal sisters three Last Line: Cease, o melpomene, thy tragic song! Subject(s): Samoa; Sea; Ocean AQUATIC NOCTURNE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in liquid / turquoise slivers Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ARAKOON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in storms, the triple-headed Last Line: Works against the tide in vain. Subject(s): New South Wales, Australia; Sea; Ocean AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks AT A MONTH'S END, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night last night was strange and shaken Last Line: The wild-beast mark of panther's fangs. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean AT ETRETAT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean beats against the stern, dumn shore Last Line: Their past disasters in that utmost peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT LES EBOULEMENTS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bay is set with ashy sails Last Line: "and leave the marshes to the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea; Bereavement; Ocean AT OUR GOLDEN GATE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At our gate he groaneth, groaneth Last Line: Else give back these seas again! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the investing darkness growls Last Line: Who never winks an eye and never stays to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown-faced sailor, tell me true Last Line: "and his love for us no sin can sunder." Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a brave man faces the foe Last Line: Butting its way through the night. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some things are undivined except by love Last Line: Nearest the dear one on a foreign shore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was off the cliffs of scituate Last Line: By that wild, treacherous shore. Subject(s): Scituate, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the mad sea ravens for its prey Last Line: Where sea and storm and life shall be no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, we go down to sea in ships-- Last Line: And waft us home again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Last Line: Farewell and adieu. Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty fills each bubble-dome Last Line: My bosom -- lord, abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean AT SEA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw large waves Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean ATLANTIS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the chill seas of yesterday Last Line: Why in the world were you ever begun? Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean AUTONOMY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own! Last Line: Be thou the captain of thy soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Soul; Ocean AZURE ISLANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmen, sailing by night and day Last Line: One of thy murmuring fountains. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BABE BURIED AT SEA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep sea took the dead. It was a babe Last Line: Never to fade, nor die. -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean BABYLONIAN SORROWS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm summon'd by death. I'd fain, my love Last Line: Ere I myself from this earth can pass. Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Grief; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BAHAMAS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea; Ocean BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the far samoan shore Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping BALLAD OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song the sea-wind sings Last Line: Her central fires make one vast flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BARACAROLLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay Last Line: Sink sail! For such a dream as love is lost before the waking. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BARCAROLE: DE VIGNY, by E. G. B. Poem Text First Line: Come with me, lady fair Last Line: "here art thou free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Landfall; Sea; Liberty; Ocean BECKY AND BENNY IN FAR ROCKAWAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the atlantic ocean, past the last subway station Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BEFORE BALBOA, by ROBIN LAMPSON Poem Text First Line: The pacific was there before balboa and magellan perceived Last Line: And fashioned his pioneer microscopes to pry open to his patience an inner infinity. Subject(s): Pacific Ocean BEFORE DAWN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breath of the dawn, breath of the dawn Last Line: Purify me. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Soul; Sunrise; Ocean BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BESIDE THE SEA, by RUTH L. DROWNS Poem Text First Line: Down by the seaside let me stay Last Line: For brief digression. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BEYOND (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river to the sea Last Line: She does not understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BEYOND KERGUELEN, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the south, by the waste without sail Last Line: Moans in the south by the ghost of a sea. Subject(s): Kerguelen (islands), Indian Ocean BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england. Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO: PREFACE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt Last Line: Was as light kindling all a windy sea. Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Morning; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean BLACK-EYED SUSAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the downs the fleet was moored Last Line: "adieu!"" she cried; and waved her lily hand." Variant Title(s): Sweet William's Farewell To Black-eyed Susan Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Ocean BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLUE WATER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Fog; Boats; Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Haze; Ocean BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Ocean BONES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sling me under the sea Last Line: Sling me . . . Under the sea. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BRAEMAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night from the stern I thought, as I watched Last Line: Pale bodies the sea's farness from their shore Subject(s): Sea; Night; Ocean; Bedtime BREACHING THE ROCK, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pacific, the true misnomer: around the columbia Last Line: Ready to settle for less. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pacific Ocean; Storms; Work; Workers BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea! Last Line: Will never come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea; Ocean BREAKING BILLOWS AT SORRENTO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of whirling flakes of foam Last Line: In thunder the sea's boundless might. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Sea; Sky; Ocean BURDENED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! There is no sadder fate in life Last Line: You are but a weak woman at the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Women; Destiny; Ocean BURIAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is a body that should die at sea! Last Line: Not wait till I've been dead for a year! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL AT SEA, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: In all the wide unrest that is the sea Last Line: Behind the soundless dark of final bars. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Burials; Ocean BURLESQUE SONNET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, mackintosh, artificer of light Last Line: Of light, and light's purveyance, hail, the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BURNING DRIFT-WOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before my drift-wood fire I sit Last Line: Its mirage-lifted isles of peace. Subject(s): Driftwood; Sea; Ocean BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung Last Line: Between the silence and the wind. Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean BY MORNING TWILIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, like a dying mother Last Line: With the song of the sea to the land. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean BY THE AUTUMN SEA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair as the dawn of the fairest day Last Line: And the night shades close on the autumn sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE PACIFIC, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this quaint cabin window I can see Last Line: The heavy heart-beats of eternity. Subject(s): Pacific Ocean BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here room and kingly silence keep Last Line: Their ghosts illume my lurid west. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BY THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "slowly, steadily, under the moon" Last Line: Forever and ever his will be done Subject(s): Sea;waves; Ocean BY THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I started early, took my dog Last Line: At me, the sea withdrew. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caves of the sea have been troubled to-day Last Line: Ah, never and never come home! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little country churchyard Last Line: For aught but the needs of the day. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the sea moan evermore? Last Line: Without a pang, and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a hand on my window tapped Last Line: And the moan of the rising sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Sea; Supernatural; Nightmares; Ocean BY THE SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside an ebbing northern sea Last Line: In one low, broken cry? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEASIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest Last Line: "with a full heart; ""our thoughts are 'heard' in heaven." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CALL HIM HIGH SHELLEY NOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a frigid man whom men deplore Last Line: Call him high shelley now and praise his wake. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean CALM AT SEA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is clear Last Line: To light the temple of devotion. Subject(s): Calm; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean CAMEO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long shall he live thro' time remembered Last Line: With thrust of tail and fin. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean CAPE COD MEMORY, by A. PEARLE CARTER Poem Text First Line: These I shall weave into my tapestries Last Line: Through the gray silence, a low-whispered word. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Ocean CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king Last Line: It took him unawares! Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CAPTAIN JONES' INVITATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who on some dark mountain's brow Last Line: Learn what it is to go to sea. Subject(s): American Revolution; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Sea; Ocean CAPTAIN KIDD, by T. B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: A buccaneer, a bad man Last Line: "I'd knife ye!"" and I would." Subject(s): Boats; Racism; Sea; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Ocean CARGOES, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean CASTLES OF THE SEA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Summer's breath is on the ocean, fragrant from far / southern lands Last Line: And our lives are spent in loving there among the isles of god. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CEMETERY NEAR THE SEA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no luck Subject(s): Sea; Graves; Ocean; Tombs; Tombstones CHART, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not you whose throat no more Last Line: To water and stone. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Purpose lost Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHILD ELSIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For love of the sea, child elsie Last Line: Afar from the fishing town. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHIMERA, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the verge of the sea a man finds a gelatinous creature, Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHRIST OF SAINT LAURENT!, by EDITH BEATRICE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Still towers the cross upon the lone hillside Last Line: Blessing, with outstretched hands, the river's flow. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHRISTMAS AT SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand Last Line: Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christmas; Sea; Travel; Nativity, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A young amazon Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows. Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America CLANCY'S SONG, by JAMES BRENDAN CONNOLLY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I love old ocean's smile Last Line: My prayer's for death by drowning. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLASSROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seas of tranquility they sort of nod Last Line: Not even on postcards Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean CLOUD SEAS, by OLIVE C. LEARY Poem Text First Line: The sky's a tossing, wind-swept sea Last Line: And joy knows depths unseen. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLOUD SONG, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silken sails in silver galleons Last Line: From your merchandise of dreams! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen CLOUDS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clouds, ye are ships in the infinite blue Last Line: Where you float. Subject(s): Harbors; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At one of its sources the river Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel COLUMBUS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind him lay the gray [or, great] azores Last Line: "its grandest lesson: ""on! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Port Of Ships;a Tribute To Columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Patriotism; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more. Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean COMPENSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all / there are moments Last Line: The sea! The sea! The sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Sea; Wine; Ocean COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god. Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean CONSTANCY, FR. SERAGLIO, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear Last Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear,' etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery; Ocean CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves. Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean CRAQUEODOOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon Last Line: With a long piece of crape to her tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Spirk Troll-derisive Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Last Line: This dead street never stops Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages CROSSING THE ATLANTIC BY PLANE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: The man-made wonder soared Last Line: And which named the more awesome - %the waters, the clouds, or the plane? Subject(s): Air Travel; Atlantic Ocean CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: DEATH OF A BALLERINA IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: Where the pacific kisses Last Line: To run deep, rise high, sail on Subject(s): Death; Pacific Ocean DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DAWNLIGHT ON THE SEA, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking Last Line: When we two walk together in the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean DEAR SAVIOUR PILOT ME, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: As sails my fragile bark Last Line: When dawns the light of day! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DEATH OF THE OLD SEA KING, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a fearful night - the tempest raved Last Line: And calmly talked with death. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow leaves her nest Last Line: In the grave. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er Last Line: Our sails swell full! To sea! To sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH-GRAPPLE, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Man and the pitiless waters Last Line: How long shall the carnage be? Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many, the changes more Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DIGNITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks jut out of the sea Last Line: They lacked before. Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Ocean; Granite; Rocks DIMANCHE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sabbath-day! Of all the seven the best! Last Line: Thine own right arm, omnipotent to save! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean DIRECTION, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: This is a harbor where no boatman's cry Last Line: Upon some object not yet wholly known. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean DIRGE AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text 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 DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the bourns of time and sleep Last Line: This sailor's requiem! Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean DISAPPOINTMENT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! Joy! My lover's bark returns Last Line: She reels -- she -- sinks -- o heaven! She's gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Disappointment; Love; Sea; Ocean DISCOURAGED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the little babbling streamlet Last Line: Blue and infinite, the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Rivers; Sea; Ocean DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lean against the cooling car, backs pressed Last Line: The full caught pause of their embrace Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Pacific Ocean DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't. Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DISTANT SOUND OF THE SEA AT EVENING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale Last Line: Who girds tired nature with unslumbering might. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First having read the book of myths Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving & Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean DOES NO ONE AT ALL EVER FEEL THIS WAY IN THE LEAST?, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ocean sea for all your being vast Last Line: And telling them how sinbad was a sailor Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DOLOR OOGO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirteen men by ruan shore Last Line: Wipes her hands incessantly. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all. Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Text First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still! Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY Poem Text First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly Last Line: Waves of sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs DREAMER, SAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer, say, will you dream for me Last Line: Breaks the sleep of the silence there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean DREAMLAND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up anchor! Up anchor! / set sail and away! Last Line: Are thine for a day. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean DREAMS OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know not why I yearn for thee again Last Line: Thy salt is lodged for ever in my blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean DUSK AT SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends Last Line: Both light and guide on the long journey home. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Ocean EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EBB TIDE AT NOON, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezes sleep; their morning jounrey done Last Line: And all the waters waken into motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 30. FORMS OF PRAYER AT SEA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To kneeling worshippers no earthly floor Last Line: Will listen, and ye know that he is just. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Worship; Ocean ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 9. WILLIAM THE THIRD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm as an under-current, strong to draw Last Line: Shrinks from the verdict of his stedfast eye. Subject(s): Sea; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Ocean ECHOES: 32, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay, Last Line: They're all growing green in the old countrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Falmouth;home Subject(s): Falmouth, England; Home; Sea; Ocean EDVARD GRIEG, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light across the fjord is very cool Last Line: The very scene I look on here tonight. Subject(s): Light; Love; Norway; Sea; Summer; Ocean ELEANORE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes open'd not Last Line: So dying ever, eleanore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ENCOUNTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At two thousand feet the sea wrinkles like an old man's hand Last Line: The night stirred angrily like an old suspicion Subject(s): Fog; Giants; Sea; Water; Haze; Ocean ENGLAND: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; Justice; Sea; English; Ocean ENOUGH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long we'd sought for avalon Last Line: The oars—yea, and yearned. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Avalon (legend); Sea; Ocean EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dash of yellow sand Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean EROSION, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What the sea does - coming, going - is the mole beneath the seeming solid earth Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EVENING BY THE SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was between the night and day Last Line: Low places where the rock-fish feed. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EVENING EBB, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while, five night-herons Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EVENING ON THE BROADS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over two shadowless waters, adrift as a pinnace in peril Last Line: Ghost or god, evermore moves on the face of the deep. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean EVENING SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudlets are lazily sailing Last Line: To have a better stare! Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean EXILED, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching my heart for its true sorrow Last Line: I have a need of water near. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Last Line: Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii FAIRE SHEWES DECEIVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smooth was the sea, and seem'd to call Last Line: Who, kissing, kill such saints as these? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FAITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was breaking at my feet Last Line: "there is! There is!"" replied." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Sea; Belief; Creed; Theology; Ocean FANTASIA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am a sea-flower Last Line: And let the good ship go. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean FAR OFF-SHORE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the raft, a signal flying Last Line: Sweeps anew! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FAR OUT AT SEA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Last Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean FAREWELL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, and when forth Last Line: Sail, a hopeless sailor? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck Last Line: The old arithmetic? Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean Last Line: And red when they are cooked. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean FISH-WOMEN - ON LANDING AT CALAIS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold Last Line: The undisturbed abodes where sea-nymphs dwell! Subject(s): Calais, France; Sea; Ocean FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sea crashed over the grim gray rocks Last Line: "the flotsam and jetsam of human life, / no saving reflux knows" Subject(s): Disasters;sea;shipwrecks; Ocean FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean FOAM STRAY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wears white like a wave Last Line: Set on a white sea. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean FOG HORN AT NIGHT, by HELEN MITCHEL Poem Text First Line: Fashion the feel of it Last Line: Fog horn at night. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FOR HENRIETTA POLYDORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the land and on the sea Last Line: Be best beloved and love us best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean FOR THOSE AT SEA; HYMN, by WILLIAM WHITING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal father, strong to save Last Line: Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Ocean FOR YOU - TRULY, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: I dare not write too lightly Last Line: To tell you what you are! Subject(s): Beauty; Sea; Trees; Writing & Writers; Ocean FOUR CAPRI IMPROMPTUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the furze flower fainting in the noon heat Last Line: But not less quickly withered? Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Ocean FOUR MATRICES: 4. THE SEA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Screw-gumption despite cold rain and clouds drifting below treetops Last Line: Rowboats sunk in fifty fathoms. After drifting the oceans for years. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year lies fallen and faded Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me! Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean FRANKIE'S TRADE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old horn to all atlantic said Last Line: (all round the horn!) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FRENCHMAN'S BAY, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sudden and swift the mountains rise Last Line: I follow the restless sea. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean FROM OVERSEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From oversea / violets for memories Last Line: Hither to thither oversea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Memory; Sea; Ocean FROM SEA TO SEA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake hands! Kiss hands in haste to the sea Last Line: We gaze on the boundless, white balboa seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROM SHORE, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean goes, for fat miles Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROM THE SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All beauty calls you to me, and you seem Last Line: A heaven of unborn evanescent stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FULL FATHOM FIVE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, you surface seldom Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GEO-BESTIARY: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's too short to be a whore anymore,' Last Line: No dog whore but trotting legs, an empty stomach. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GHOST SHIP, by ROBERT NEALEY Poem Text First Line: I did not even then quite understand Last Line: She quickly sailed away and soon grew dim. Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean GIBRALTAR AT DAWN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and over the sea we came Last Line: "the hoarse waves thunder, ""trafalgar!" Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What does the blue atlantic bring Last Line: And a black, tiny fly, stinging Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Morning; Nature; Sea GIGHA, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That firewood pale with salt and burning green Last Line: The sun with long legs wades into the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moments there are that loom up from the past Last Line: Radiant with dreams and ancient ecstasy. Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Soul; Temples; Ocean; Mosques GOD HELP OUR MEN AT SEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild night comes like an owl to its lair Last Line: God help our men at sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GRACE DARLING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, o star of all our seas, from not an alien hand Last Line: While the sea that spared thee girds and glorifies the land. Subject(s): Death; Grace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean GRISELDA OF THE SEAS, by AMY REDPATH RODDICK Poem Text First Line: Pale arrowy lights were in her eyes Last Line: Was I like her divine? Subject(s): Sea; Women; Ocean GULF STREAM, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely and cold and fierce I keep my way Last Line: If I am most her lover or her foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Gulf Stream; Sea; Ocean GULF-WEED, by CORNELIUS GEORGE FENNER Poem Text First Line: A weary weed, tossed to and fro Last Line: Grace informing with silent soul. Subject(s): Sea; Seaweed; Ocean HALF MILE DOWN, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sick heart and my sick soul Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HALL OF OCEAN LIFE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the unmapped valleys of darkness, nor Last Line: Returning light to the light, come to be? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HANG-OVER, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Morning is a dingy room Last Line: And the lost, lost sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Morning; Sea; Sun; Wine; Ocean HARBURY, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: All the men of harbury go down to the sea in ships Last Line: "any one who harks will still hear the sea cry." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HARRY HAWKER, by FRANCIS HACKETT Poem Text First Line: So endlessly the gray-lipped sea Last Line: And followed up the sky. Variant Title(s): The Dead Aviator Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HARVEST, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a schooner came ashore this fall Last Line: That one might bring his soul to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HEAVING OF THE LEAD, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For england when with favoring gale Last Line: "proclaim, -- ""all's well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HERE AND NOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of earth come and go Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HERMES OF THE WAYS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hard sand breaks Last Line: Shore-grass. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean HERVE RIEL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the sea and at the hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two Last Line: The belle aurore! Subject(s): France; Heroism; Hogue, La, Battle Of; Sea; Heroes; Heroines; Ocean HIGH HEART, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that I watch from my window Last Line: When you come home. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breath is on the glimmering ocean-floor Last Line: And soul environing of shadowy sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIGH-TIDE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I edged back against the night Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a gull catch a bait in midair Last Line: A hook, the end of the line. Subject(s): Investments; Sea; Seashore; Stocks; Bonds; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HILL AND SEA, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: Lost in the blue of distant hills Last Line: Your beauty wrings the heart of me! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HOME, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: He left his office for the street Last Line: He turned towards the sea. Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobly, nobly cape saint vincent to the northwest died away Last Line: While jove's planet rises yonder, silent over africa. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean HOPE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sailed and sailed upon the desert sea Last Line: Like yonder land. Perhaps -- perhaps -- perhaps! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose ships never come home Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter Last Line: Going drifting out to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the harps which the winds play Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean HYMN TO THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Great sea, too much have fools impugned our empire's might, boast Last Line: Sky, deposits evermore the infinite salt of stars. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean HYMN TO THE SEA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, o regal in bounty, a subtle and delicate largess Last Line: Man and his greatness survive, lost in the greatness of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I AM A SEA SHELL, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Put your ear to my lips and listen Last Line: I am a sea shell. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology I HAVE LOVED HOURS AT SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean I LOVE..., by HOPE RIDINGS MILLER Poem Text First Line: Slow drifts of haze that veil the hills Last Line: And hours that I have spent with you. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean I SAW THREE SHIPS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I sat under a sycamore tree Last Line: On christ's sunday at morn! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I SHALL HAVE PEACE AGAIN (WRITTEN AFTER READING 'RIDERS TO THE SEA', by FLORA LOUISE BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Now all are gone. The sea can do no more Last Line: For all are gone. I shall have peace again. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean I'VE COME HERE LOOKING, by PHILIP MEMMER Poem Source First Line: For exactly this chill, this atlantic damp Last Line: From center stage, blues in the neon lamps Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; October IDEA: 1, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an adventurous seafarer am I Last Line: My tedious travels and oft-varying fate. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IF ALL THE SEAS WERE ONE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: What a splish splash that would be! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IMPARTIAL SKIES, by ANNA WHITE HARDINGER Poem Text First Line: You sing a song of arid lands Last Line: To share the sky's expanse! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night Last Line: Sh! Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean IMPRESSIONS: LA MER, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white mist drifts across the shrouds Last Line: Float on the waves like ravelled lace. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IMPRESSIONS: LES SILHOUETTES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is flecked with bars of grey Last Line: Like silhouettes against the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN CARMEL BAY, by MADGE CLOVER Poem Text First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day Last Line: She steps into the night. Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet. Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean IN GUERNSEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors Last Line: Beloved and blest. Subject(s): Guernsey; Night; Roundels; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three feet below his belly, the reef's Last Line: Sea fans, past conchs pink as cunts. Subject(s): Coral; Desire; Haiti; Sea; Ocean IN HARBOR, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, I praise thy broad expanse Last Line: Than on thy restless waves, o sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN OLD HASTINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ere dawn, when clustered stars are wan Last Line: Is gathered to the secret of the sea! Subject(s): Dawn; Hastings, England; Night; Sea; Sunrise; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue! Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean IN SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder Last Line: Abreast and ahead? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean IN THE BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Last Line: No sunrise and no sunset marks their day. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Seashore; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN THE DARK, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All moveless stand the ancient cedar-trees Last Line: Grant me to see the light! Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN THE FOAM, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life swelleth in a whitening wave Last Line: Prattville, alabama, december, 1867. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue. Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean IN THE OPEN SEA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE SEA, by HIRAM RICH Poem Text First Line: The salt wind blows upon my cheek Last Line: God leads the eternal flow. Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean IN THE TRADES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, let her rip - with her royal clew a-quiver Last Line: In the weed and the coral, far below . . . Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE WATER, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, not in forest, nor moorlands sun-lighted Last Line: Oh, lower me down! I shall rest there, I know. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean INFANTA MARINA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Her terrace was the sand Subject(s): Women; Sea; Ocean INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People that build their houses inland Last Line: One salt taste of the sea once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean INLAND SEA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the moonlit sea Last Line: Like apprehension's baffling destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Sea; Japanese; Ocean INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INTERPRETED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, eastward o'er the billows white Last Line: What means, o sea, thy moaning! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean INTO THE SILENCE (A DEATH IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ungather'd lie the peats upon the moss Last Line: "he lies, and waits the lord in darkness grim." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Silence; Dead, The; Ocean INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean IOLAIRE; LINES WRITTEN IN THE NORTH DEA ON BOARD THE S.Y. IOLAIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This was the land that the norseman plough'd! Last Line: The phantom hosts of the norsemen glide. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vikings; Ocean IRRECONCILIATION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Tonight the moon hangs low, low Last Line: And shelter for us! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean ISLAND BORN (1), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in an island town Last Line: I wear the sea as others wear a crown! Variant Title(s): Sea Born Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ISLAND BORN (2), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother loved the way of ships that go Last Line: It was not strange an island was my home. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Ocean ISOLATE, by PORTIA MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I looked out over the ocean Last Line: And watched it disappear. Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fading light on a lonely beach Last Line: And frets the silted sand. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great master of the poet's art! Last Line: Itself a canticle of love! Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Ocean JOHN JONES: 3. ON THE SANDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was nothing at all in the case (con Last Line: Till one night -- 'is god off now? Or on? Subject(s): Love; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JOHN JONES: 4. UP THE SPOUT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say! Last Line: Of jewry! Just in time! Subject(s): God; Jews; Sea; Judaism; Ocean JOHN WINTER, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ails john winter, that so oft Last Line: Among his mates once more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JOTTINGS: THE SEA IS ITSELF, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is itself: it does not fear to be calm or stormy Last Line: Why have I feared to be like the sea -- myself? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JOTTINGS: THE SEA WHISPERS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea whispers to me of women because I am lonely Last Line: Now bass of men's voices furious, urgent, and strong. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JUBILEE SONG, by JAMES NORTH Poem Text First Line: All hail to atlantic! This festival 'wakens Last Line: Move to the strains of the glad jubilee. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Last Line: How it would have feared us Subject(s): Sea; United States; Ocean; America JUST AT THE MOONRISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing the rush and roar of the deep-sea breakers Last Line: Just at the moonrise! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the marsh Last Line: And the tumult of waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean LAND'S END, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A day all blue and white, and we Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean LANDFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Landfall at dawn, and madeira rose from the sea Last Line: And sinking glad to his knees. Subject(s): Hearts; Landfall; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean LAUGH OF A SAILOR, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: The dimpled waves of the ocean Last Line: But never a thought of me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean LE RAPPROCHEMENT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet! I linger, but for thee Last Line: Pledge us a bright morrow's meeting. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sleep; Sun; Ocean LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LEPANTO, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White founts falling in the courts of the sun Last Line: (but don john of austria rides home from the crusade.) Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Crusades; John Of Austria (1629-1679); Lepanto, Battle Of; Sea; Don Juan The Younger; Ocean LES CASQUETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the depth of the waters that lighten and darken Last Line: The love of the heart of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LESS SECURITY AT SEA THAN ON SHORE; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When seas are calm, tost by no angry wind Last Line: Whose purling noise with pleasure charms the ear. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LEVIATHAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leviathanic natures, / huge-browed, vast-spined Last Line: Of time and night. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Skulls; Dead, The; Ocean LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the dark we grope along Last Line: Which led us to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LIGHTNING, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Mad thunder is a seamstress Last Line: But her knot of gold, the sun. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Sky; Sun; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Ocean LINES ON THE VIEW FROM ST. LEONARDS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thy face and odors, glorious sea Last Line: Shall sing thy glory, beatific sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LINES WRITTEN IN A LONELY BURIAL GROUNDS ON NORTHEN COAST OF HIGHLANDS, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How mournfully this burial-ground Last Line: Down -- down a thousand fathoms deep Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean LITTLE BILLEE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three sailors of bristol city Last Line: The captain of a seventy-three. Variant Title(s): The Three Sailors Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: There is space in mountains Last Line: Very brief. Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean LONELY HARBOR, by HELEN EVELYN WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: We used to walk the wave-washed shore Last Line: Is always there for me! Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Waves; Ocean LONG TRIP, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is a wilderness of waves Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Sea; Negroes; American Blacks; Ocean LONGFELLOW, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea the swift sad message darts Last Line: Of aspiration human and divine. Subject(s): Death; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness LOSS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea called / you faced the estuary Last Line: The gods wanted you back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean LOVE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark's on the water; come down, come down Last Line: In the sea they have found a common grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We are in love's land today Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LOVE EPHEMERAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is sweet, and so are flowers Last Line: Love endures but for a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sea; Ocean LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I sat upon the shore Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life. Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LOW TIDE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gathering over the dunes Last Line: Why did you bring me down to the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean LOW TIDE AT ST. ANDREWS (NEW BRUNSWICK), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long red flats stretch open to the sky Last Line: The silence of the sands when tides are low. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sea; Summer; Ocean LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean LUX IN TENEBRIS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: It was night Last Line: Asail on a blue-black sky. ... Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LYRIC, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low laughter of light Last Line: That spans the sky. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Time; Ocean LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 47, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love, in fond converse together Last Line: We mournfully floated along. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW: 3, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea speaks to me of you Last Line: Voicing my grief. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MAN IN BLACK, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the three magenta Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARCH MAGIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the fickle birds return Last Line: A magic wisp of moon. Subject(s): Birds; Magic; March (month); Sea; Ocean MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MARE AMORIS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: If your ecstasies implore Last Line: Where I enter I destroy. Subject(s): Sea; Togetherness; Ocean MARGARET BENEATH THE WAVES, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not weep at night, for then in dreams Last Line: And let me sleep with her the last sleep of the blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MARINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chariots of silver and copper Last Line: Whose angle is struck by the whirlwinds of light. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARINE, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You would have been as quiet as this sea Last Line: Nothing but ocean and the empty sky. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARINE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boat is cutting into the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARSH MUSIC, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: A thread of sea is sewn in the green land Last Line: Of the sea's sound -- attenuated clang. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my heart it will break, my eyes they will weep" Last Line: For unbroken and still is the sleep on his head Subject(s): Hearts;lament;love;sea;soul; Ocean MAXIMUS, LETTER 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: . . . . . Tell you? Ha! Who Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Work; Workers; Ocean MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had to learn the simplest things Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MAY JANET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, stand up, thou may janet Last Line: And a gold flag overhead. Subject(s): Marriage; Sea; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MEDITERRANEAN, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A whirlwind's vortex Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray sea and the long black land Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each. Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize Last Line: What can ye do but weep? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean MESSMATES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave us all a goodbye cheerily Last Line: When the great ships go by. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MICHAEL OAKTREE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed Last Line: The sacrament and sabbath of the sea. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MIDSUMMER DAWN AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship glides steadily on Last Line: Open, to close no more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life Last Line: When such a moment came to me! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean MONHEGAN GULLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls on monhegan Last Line: To my remembering heart. Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gulls; Sea; Sky; Flying; Seagulls; Ocean MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath Last Line: And self begin to be. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean MOON ON THE SEA, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dim twilight dreams Last Line: Pale moon! Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean MOONLIGHT AT SEA, by GERTRUDE M. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I linger on the deck and watch the moon Last Line: Trace out her golden glory on the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean MOONRISE FROM IONA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where in dim forgotten days Last Line: The bat flies and the owl doth brood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Wind; Ocean MOTEL VIEW, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is conceivable in fact that waves Subject(s): Sea; Weather; Cape Ann, Massachusetts; Ocean MOUNTAIN-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How hast thou, little spring Last Line: "again I nightly rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MR. MERRY'S LAMENT FOR LONG TOM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cruise is over now Last Line: Poor tom. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MY GRAVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the ocean grave, under the azure wave Last Line: There be the sleeping-place chosen by me. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean MY GRIEF ON THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His mouth to my mouth Subject(s): Grief;sea;sea Voyages; Sorrow;sadness;ocean MY LOST YOUTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of the beautiful town Last Line: "and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Variant Title(s): Sea Memories;lost Youth Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portland, Maine; Sea; Youth; Childhood; Ocean MY MARY ANN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fare you well my own mary ann Last Line: In angel form to my mary ann Subject(s): Farewell;love;sea;ships & Shipping; Parting;ocean MY MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A venus seems my mouse Last Line: Keep house. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory; Mice; Sea; Ocean MY OWN, by SYLVIA BING Poem Text First Line: Acrid fragrance of salt in the night air - Last Line: And the waves against the shore are droning -- droning -- Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean NEAP PLUS ULTRA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is like the ocean Last Line: He was afraid of the undertow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean NEAP-TIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off is the sea, and the land is afar Last Line: In the sun and the wind and the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Ocean NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NEREID, by PAUL CAREL Poem Text First Line: Born of the sea's resistless surge Last Line: Ten fathoms down. Subject(s): Nereid (mythology); Sea; Ocean NEREID, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She dances on a scallop stage Last Line: By tossing sea weed at her feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean NEREID'S SONG, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I held you in my arms Last Line: The ocean's at the door Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NEW ENGLAND, by EDNA LEMONT MALONE Poem Text First Line: You stand a worthy sentinel Last Line: Those are the things we prize. Subject(s): New England; Sea; Ocean NEW MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now day / drawing his golden waters down the west Last Line: From their too youthful wonder in the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can hate the sea as it floods Subject(s): Hospitals; Sea; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Ocean NIGHT FALL, by KENT GODFREY Poem Text First Line: Sea gulls and spray Last Line: Tolling its echo within me. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean NIGHT HYMN AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night sinks on the wave Last Line: Power dwells with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the stars would come Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on! Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, god, how well they meant Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains! Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean NIGHT STORM, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tempest sweeps the atlantic! - nevasink Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Storms NIGHT-SONG, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night -- my bark is on the ocean Last Line: Bless thee, my love! Good night, good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Ocean NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon .... Last Line: When nippon isle was made. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques NIRVANA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am / a clam! Subject(s): "clams;coney Island, New York City;sea;" Ocean NO SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south come the birds that were banished Last Line: But unto a dead love there cometh no spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean NOCTURNE IN SILVER, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Against the moon-rayed shore the breakers curled Last Line: With minor chords to tear the heart asunder. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NORTH ATLANTIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sea is everywhere Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean NORTH ATLANTIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is always the same Last Line: It is neither saturday nor monday, %it is any day or no day,%it is a year, ten years Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will come back to you and you to me Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two rising flukes of green water Last Line: Must bear away the most meat. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O LOVED AND LOST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the sea this autumn day Last Line: And we are one in life for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean O NAVIS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, to the roadstead rolled Last Line: Tempt not the tyrant sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean OCEAN, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of the years find rest in thee Last Line: Thy child eluding thee in resurrection. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone absorbs heat. Thrown Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye again. Say there is a little song in my head Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Death; Ocean; Dead, The OCEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomed deep, unfetter'd waste Last Line: Its shade on hope's dim ray. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN VOICES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sea-birds sing on the mossy crag Last Line: Are the waters of shim'ring blue. Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 16. THE SAME SKY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought until one night I' the / dark Last Line: And asked them to guide well my dear one's barque.) Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ODE TO NEPTUNE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While raging tempests shake the shore Last Line: Not give my wishes to the empty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea; Ocean ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE TO THER SEA, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lure me, o musical motions of the sea Last Line: Lost in the daybreak shall return no more! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ODE. SITTING AND DRINKING IN THE CHAIR ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chear up my mates, the wind does fairly blow Last Line: Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot mee. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean ODES I, 14. THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ship! New billows sweep thee out Last Line: That gird those glittering cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus OFF CAPE SANTO GARCIA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea! Thy waves are cold and dark Last Line: But not a faithless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Sea; Weariness; Ocean; Fatigue OFF FIRE ISLAND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With snapping flag against the gray Last Line: The flashing bluefish leaps -- for life! Subject(s): Fire Island; New York City - Colonial Period; Sea; Ocean OFF MESOLONGI, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights of mesolongi gleam Last Line: To gaze, and pass. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece; Ocean OFF SHORE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the might of the summer is most on the sea Last Line: But thou art the god, and thy kingdom is heaven, and thy shrine is the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sea; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean OILY WEATHER, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea desires deep dulls Last Line: Throbbing ships scorn it Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD ANCHOR CHANTY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a long heavy heave, my very famous men Last Line: (bring home!) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD COMMODORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Od's blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk Last Line: "shall kill, till they grapple him at sea" Subject(s): Death;sailing & Sailors;sea; "dead, The;ocean; OLD DEEP SING-SONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old deep sing-song of the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD IRONSIDES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Last Line: The lightning and the gale! Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ON A JANUARY BEACH, by NORMA R. WETHERED Poem Text First Line: Sea gulls walking on a january beach Last Line: Serene and solemnic the ocean rolls by. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea Last Line: Himself our bravest crown. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached a green, green island Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean ON RETURN FROM THE SHORE, by HELEN IFFLA BAY Poem Text First Line: Surely he made his sea for solitude Last Line: Perhaps it was for this he made his sea. Subject(s): Creation; God; Sea; Ocean ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE MOTTO OF A SEAL, 'IF I LOSE THEE, I AM LOST', by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Wafted o'er a treacherous sea Last Line: "for, ""if I lose thee, I am lost." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SALT SEA, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salt begets thirst; then well may rivers be Last Line: Salt as it is, all swallowed by the sea. Subject(s): Salt; Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will call her when she comes to me Last Line: As I sail away on the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The splendor [or, pathway] of the sinking moon Last Line: But the love in thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA WALL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit upon the old sea wall Last Line: The ocean's dear deceit! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SHORE, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: A glow of crimson glory floods the west Last Line: Where deeds like stars may glow. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ON THE VERGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here begins the sea that ends not till the Last Line: From the shore that hath no shore beyond it set in all the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know! Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ON THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat drifts in the heart of heat Last Line: Oh! Fly from the enchanted sea! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore ONE BY ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery ONE THAT'S ON THE SEA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With gallant sail and streamer gay Last Line: The home of him that's on the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OPEN OCEAN, by ROBERT L. WOLFE Poem Text First Line: We two who found the haven snug and safe Last Line: To rank this harbor-happiness enough. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ORCA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-lions loafed in the swinging tide in the inlet, long fluent creatures Last Line: Experiment, that has run wild, and ought to be stopped Subject(s): Cruelty; War; Sea; Ocean ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where of old was heard Last Line: "our watterson!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Honor; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips OUT OF THE DEEP, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: At the hour when the stars from the eastern spaces are peering Last Line: The soul from self that again unto god goes back. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean OVER THE SEA, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad eyes! Why are ye steadfastly gazing Last Line: Over the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OXWICH BAY, GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night hung heavy, black and chill Last Line: Trailing like some winged bird. Subject(s): Battleships; Sea; Wales; War; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen PACIFIC BEACH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sea called peaceful Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean PACIFIC BEACH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sea called peaceful Last Line: Fleet gleam like a golden town %in another country Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean PACIFIC SUNSET, by WILLIAM GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Concord supreme takes heavenly control Last Line: Soars, kin to god, a tiny spark of star. Subject(s): Pacific Ocean PARTING AT MORNING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round the cape of a sudden came the sea Last Line: And the need of a world of men for me. Variant Title(s): Parting And Meeting Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; Separation; Isolation; Ocean PASA THALASSA THALASSA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone - faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Last Line: Down where he lies to-night, silent, and under the storms. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PAST DAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and gone, the days we had together Last Line: Cliffs and downs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Roundels; Sea; Ocean PATHS ACROSS THE SEA, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the silver crest of the ocean's breast Last Line: On our path to the fairy moon. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PATROLING BARNEGAT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running Last Line: That savage trinity warily watching. Variant Title(s): Patrolling Barnegat Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Sea; Storms; Ocean PEBBLES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the clerk of the weather insist Last Line: Distilled in wholesome dew named rosmarine. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PESCADERO PEBBLES, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crash of the crystal surf all night on the wind-wild beaches Last Line: And salt tears wet them and leave them aglow by the mad waves singing. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PHENOMENOLOGY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These weeks wide as a wave and white Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Drowning; Ocean PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Man that is born of a woman Last Line: Down like a small flying gib Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean PICTURES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some likes pictures o' women,' said bill, 'an' some likes 'orses best' Last Line: "you paint me a ship as is like a ship . . . An' that'll do for me!'" Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 10. THE OCEAN'S SPECTRE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I upon the ship's edge was lying Last Line: "why, doctor, are you mad?" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 4. POSEIDON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's bright rays were playing Last Line: And the silly daughters of nereus. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 6. DECLARATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward glimmering came the evening Last Line: "agnes, I love thee!" Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 7. IN THE CABIN AT NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea its pearls possesseth Last Line: In calm and radiant but excessive love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sea; Tears; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 8. STORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest is raging Last Line: Over the wide and tempest-toss'd sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 9. CALM AT SEA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm at sea! His beams all radiant Last Line: In his bill, again mounts upward. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 1. SEA SALUTATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thalatta! Thalatta! Last Line: Thalatta! Thalatta! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 2. THUNDERSTORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily lies on the ocean the storm Last Line: "and thou, knight of the ring, polydeuces!" Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 4. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauteous sun Last Line: "and a face all wither'd and dry." Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 5. THE SONG OF THE OCEANIDES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows of evening o'er ocean are falling Last Line: And long I sat in the darkness, with weeping. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 7. QUESTIONS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the sea, by the desert night-cover'd sea Last Line: And a fool is awaiting an answer. Subject(s): Riddles; Sea; Youth; Ocean PIRATE TREASURE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain kidd was a pirate bold Last Line: And a lot of sardine cans. Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean PITY THE SEA, by NOLANNE O'HAIR Poem Text First Line: Pity not the little pines upon these sun-white dunes Last Line: Clasping and unclasping impotent hands. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PLACES: 2. FULL MOON (SANTA BARBARA), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listened, there was not a sound to hear Last Line: Tracing in crystal the slow way he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Moon; Pacific Ocean; Santa Barbara, California PLAINT OF THE PINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a pine that shot its solemn bole Last Line: "with a fear of the ocean, that knoweth not rest." Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Nightmares; Ocean PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, I cannot plead my love of thee Last Line: The shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Cannot Plead Subject(s): God; Love; Sea; Ocean PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by EMILY N. HOXIE Poem Text First Line: I little thought to see red sails Last Line: In devon hills at dawning. Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by ERNEST RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what know they of harbours Last Line: Who toss not on the sea! Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sea; Ocean POEMS IN THE SEA, by MEDDIE MAZE LEBOLD Poem Text First Line: You say there are no poems in the sea Last Line: Your silver ship has cut across my dream. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean POETIC EPIGRAMS: 19. BY THE SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White on each mounded wave Last Line: As on a nameless grave. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean POINT SHIRLEY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Boston; Sea; Ocean POOR JACK, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see Last Line: Will look out a good berth for poor jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean POSEIDON'S BRIDE, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Poseidon comes riding, riding, riding, over the ocean to me Last Line: Come with poseidon for me. Subject(s): Atlantis; Brides; Mythology - Classical; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean PRAYER TO THE OCEAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wilt thou yield, great ocean, to thy lover Last Line: Wilt thou yield up to me? Subject(s): God; Sea; Ocean PRAYER TO THE PACIFIC, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traveled to the ocean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean PRAYER TO THE PACIFIC, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traveled to the ocean Last Line: Swallowing raindrops %clear from china Subject(s): Pacific Ocean PRIDE'S CROSSING, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the railroad meets the sea Subject(s): Railroads; Sea; Togetherness; Railways; Trains; Ocean PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous' Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean PROGRESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a wave we catch at Last Line: To voyage the universe? Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Sea; Universe; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Ocean PROVIDENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was far from the sea's voice and vastness Last Line: Is not without a meaning for mankind. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Memory; Sea; Human Race; Ocean PSALM 77, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: To thee my crying call Last Line: And to glad pasturs brought Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PSALMS OF THE SEA: THE CONVERT, by EVERETT BOSTON Poem Text First Line: The lord is my shepherd on the meadows of the sea Last Line: In the short leisure and simple words of the sea. Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel PUTTING TO SEA, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, in the dark, has cast the harbor-chain? Last Line: And learn, with joy, the gulf, the vast, the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean QUA CURSUM VENTUS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay Last Line: At last, at last, unite them there! Variant Title(s): Becalmed At Eve Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean QUATORZAINS: 8. TO SILENCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huge, viewless ocean into which we cast Last Line: And to our ears upon the wind are swung. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Silence; Ocean QUATRAIN, by ALCUIN Poem Text First Line: The sea is the road of the bold Last Line: And fountain of the rains. Alternate Author Name(s): Flaccus+(1); Albinus Subject(s): Sea; Ocean QUIA MULTUM AMAVIT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee Last Line: 18 brumaire, an 78. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Paradise; Ocean RECOMPENSE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: I never have had a look at the sea Last Line: And of seas, they are a part. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean RED SNAILS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Mere pin points on the horizon Last Line: Red sails when the journey's done! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sun; Seamen; Sails; Ocean REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf Last Line: I shall never know! Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The end with outstretched hands Last Line: Lord of eternal rest! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Ocean RESCUE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and wave and the swinging rope Last Line: But not of you. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean RESIGNATION: PART 1: SEASCAPE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But though full noble is my theme Last Line: Dead bards stench every coast. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean RESPITE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty conflict, which we call existence Last Line: Grant us a respite in the grave between. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Sea; Soul; Ocean REST AT THE MERCY HOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because nature doesn't specialize Last Line: A momentary rest. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips RETURN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body of her eyes Last Line: That brings you the sea. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Sea; Ocean RIDDLES OF MERLIN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking / alone by the sea Last Line: "sunrise for west." Subject(s): Dreams; Riddles; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; Ocean RIVER AND SEA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the river that swept Last Line: "to those who have looked on the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Ocean ROCKS, by NATALIE M. HANCOCK Poem Text First Line: Rocks - hoary with age - bearded with barnacles - crouching low Last Line: Is it the music of god, turning life's pages? Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Tides; Ocean; Granite; Rocks RONDEAU, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps Last Line: So soft, so true, with thee shall rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean RONDEL: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far have you come, my lady, from the town Last Line: Since I am sworn to live my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Sea; Woods; Ocean ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ROUGH SEA, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: Glaucus, look! At sea already splashing waves are swelling high Last Line: Sign of storm to come, and panic comes upon us suddenly. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ROVER'S SONG, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide Last Line: Hurrah, boys! Hurrah, boys! The rover is free! Subject(s): Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou? Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing. Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean SAFETY ON THE SHORE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the sea be calme? Trust to the shore Last Line: Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc't before. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAIL-BOAT (BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI), by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: All day your snowy sails, rose marigold Last Line: With music of a magic ocean shell. Subject(s): Anchors; Flowers; Marigolds; Sea; Ocean SAILS, by FLORENCE O'BRIEN Poem Text First Line: To fancy sails upon the seas Last Line: And bring my love to me. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SALLY SIMKIN'S LAMENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What is that comes gliding in Last Line: To break off in the middle.' Subject(s): Sea; Sharks; Ocean SALT AND SUNNY DAYS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silent glory of the summer day! Last Line: And beats and blinds the following wind with spray! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SALT WATER STORY, by RICHARD HUGO Poet's Biography First Line: He loved his cabin: there Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SALT WATER'S LURE, by VIRGINIA WAINWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I always lived beside the wave and spray Last Line: With boats and fog. Would life were otherwise. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Trees; Ocean SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine david, how a single Last Line: Though only for a visit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 1. THE GALE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky Last Line: His transient tragic destiny. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 2. THE TIDE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide makes music Last Line: With rustle of scales. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shalllow pools of water Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 1. GROUNDSWELL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy doleful clamour, hour on hour, and day on day Last Line: The muddy groundswell lifts and breaks and falls and slides away. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 2. SNOW AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters Last Line: In the winter evening. Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 3. NIGHT WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the night, wind of the long cool shadows Last Line: The night is cool and quiet and the wind has crept to the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 5. TIDE OF STORMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers Last Line: Night-winds shall brokenly whisper our bitter, tragic story. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 4. THE CALM, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning I saw three great ships Last Line: Becalmed on an infinite horizon. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SEA, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea called - I lay on the rocks and said Last Line: "come closer." Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SEA CALL, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand leagues of hill and plain Last Line: Days lonely as the sea, and salt as bitterest brine! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night a song comes flying Last Line: Singing of marvels in the body's dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SEA DREAMINGS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day a bird on wings as white as foam Last Line: My heart, is thy only resting place. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DREAMS, by JACK RICE Poem Text First Line: How can I stay here, a thousand miles from the sea? Last Line: Are green ... Like the green sea-foam! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DREAMS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city clerk, but gently born and bred Last Line: Your own will be the sweeter,' and they slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA FLIGHT, by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: The sea has heard your challenge. Here the wide Last Line: To conquer her unchallenged mystery. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA GEMS, by EVON DESSINS Poem Text First Line: Blue turquoise waves Last Line: From the noon sun. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA GHOSTS, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the waters Last Line: "in the wind tonight!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is no hope Last Line: Along your ragged beach. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But we bring violets Last Line: Of your own white surf. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you will come Last Line: And cherish and shelter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA HARVEST, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea has furrows Last Line: Strange are mortal souls forevermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA HEALING, by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: I will not seek in a lowering tide Last Line: Of broken longing from a gull's white throat. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA JEALOUSY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cast not your looks upon the wan grey sea Last Line: Of droned sea song. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LAND, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Vexed with herself, the sea returning sighs Last Line: She gives herself to slumber and to dreams. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SEA LEVEL, by EDITH T. NEWCOMB Poem Text First Line: From misted mountain heights the road Last Line: To me. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LONGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall Last Line: Less than the sea-gulls calling to the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LOVE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tide be runnin' the great world over Last Line: Than the wind goin' over my hand. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LOVE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: O I am never lonely if I can smell the sea Last Line: In the dawn. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean SEA LULLABY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old moon is tarnished Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LYRIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the seas to-night, love Last Line: Bright as the listening stars. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SEA MAGIC, by TILLA BARBARA SPERRY Poem Text First Line: I love the chant of the tossing sea Last Line: As it spreads its earth-free wings. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA MARVELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning more mysterious seems the sea Last Line: In the inglorious grapple after gold! Subject(s): Explorers; Sea; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean SEA MERCY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea dances in the morning Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA MIST, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The sea assumes her most mysterious dress Last Line: The ramparts and armadas of his race. Subject(s): Nothingness; Sea; Nihilism; Voids; Ocean SEA MUSIC, by LEONARD B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: I hear you wash and pound the lonely shore Last Line: Move me to feel the chords that are the sea's. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA NEARNESS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me lie in an unremembered place Last Line: The sound of wheeling gulls and waves at play. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA NURTURED, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: Watchers beside sea water wear a calm Last Line: They hold strange concourse with immensity! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA PICTURES: 1. MORNING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun has pierced the mist Last Line: Browned by the salt air and the sun. Subject(s): Morning; Sea; Ocean SEA PICTURES: 2. EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the thickening twilight presses down Last Line: Wraps in a shroud the dying light. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean SEA PIECE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime is thy prospect, thou proud-rolling ocean Last Line: The power that can hush or arouse thee at will. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA PIECE BY MOONLIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to mark the softened ray Last Line: Gild again the lovely scene. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean SEA QUATRAINS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Too fast the silly white-caps run Last Line: Driven before the gale. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA REST, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from 'where the roses rest' Last Line: By the ever restless sea? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA REVERIE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange sea! Why is it that you never rest? Last Line: Flow and ebb, ebb and flow with thy own unrest. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA SLUMBER-SONG, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea birds are asleep Last Line: "good-night!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat to the waves go free Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean SEA SONG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SONG, by HENRY MILSTEAD Poem Text First Line: The sea is a blue-backed stallion Last Line: My cares with a coral comb. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that november off tehuantepec Last Line: Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA THRIFT & GORSE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sea is not the most extravagant Subject(s): Sea; Names; Ocean SEA THUNDER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green water cover me Last Line: And let me sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Thunder; Ocean SEA VOICES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wintry sea Last Line: Claim me evermore. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SEA VOICES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, moaning sea; what tale have Last Line: I wail, I beat, I thunder, evermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA WAVE, by MABEL W. S. CALL Poem Text First Line: A little wave mermaid Last Line: Like a white fern. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Ocean SEA WIND, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And all the books are read Last Line: But, o my heart, hear thou, hear thou the sailors' song! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA, FALSE PHILOSOPHY (1), by LAURA RIDING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foremost of false philosophies, / the sea harangues the daft Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-CHANGE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-CHILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel Last Line: And a soft berth and a smooth course till the long trip's ended. Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Nature; Sea; Ocean SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SEA-HOARDINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is open again and sea flows in Last Line: And how to hope, in the darkest deeps of thinking. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Moon; Sea; Ocean SEA-MAGIC; TO R.I., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart faints in me for the distant sea Last Line: Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ingpen, Roger; Sea; Ocean SEA-PICTURES; FAR NIENTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft languors on the bosom of the deep Last Line: Between the day and me, and end it all. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Sea; Sun; Optimism; Ocean SEA-PICTURES; OFF THE HAVEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up stole a fog, a chill and ghastly thing Last Line: Lay green and glad beyond the waters gray. Subject(s): Fog; Night; Sea; Soul; Haze; Bedtime; Ocean SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA-SONG, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND BAKER Poem Text First Line: Up and away! For the east wind is blowing Last Line: Are going before us to welcome us home. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-WASH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-wash never ends Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEADRIFT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands Last Line: What if it were her lover? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAFARER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea will wash in Last Line: Without me nothing laughs Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEALED ORDERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bear sealed orders on life's weltered sea Last Line: Lie, known and very near. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Ocean SEAMUSIC, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What word in the deep mind swimming, goldfish word Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some days the happy ocean lies Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASHORE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard or seemed to hear the chiding sea Last Line: To distant men, who must go there, or die. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASIDE SONG: 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drop down below the orbed sea Last Line: On the deck I see him stand! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Sea; Love; Ocean SEASIDE SONG: 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is down into his bower Last Line: And whisper all her dreams to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Serenade Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Love; Ocean; Separation; Isolation SEASIDE THOUGHTS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, sublime, and glorious Last Line: What must thy creator be? Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE THIRD CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my chair at sea Last Line: As they go walking by. Subject(s): Chairs; Food & Eating; Sea; Tea; Ocean SEAWARD, by ANTHONY WRYNN Poem Text First Line: I will ride on a white stallion Last Line: O death. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAWEED, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When descends on the atlantic Last Line: Household words, no more depart. Variant Title(s): The Equinox Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Seaweed; Storms; Ocean SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SETH, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seth was right in holding to Last Line: Had been a banner for his eyes. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 2, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now by the wall of the ancient town I lean Last Line: And something that may be leaves or may be sea. Variant Title(s): Twilight: Rye, Sussex Subject(s): Night; Rye, England; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find. Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SEVERUS TO TIBERIUS GREATLY ENNUYE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In places the water had thumbed the thick sunglow to patches Last Line: To go under as I did, sliding down a sleek-shouldered dream, not otherwise. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Sea; Treasures; Ocean SHADOW AND SHINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of the winter, and deepening Last Line: And the world was dear to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Storms; Winter; Ocean SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHALLOWS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: I must swim out Last Line: And fade, as a sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers SHE PARTED WITH HER LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Beneath the hollow sea! Subject(s): Bells;faith;love;sea; Belief;creed;ocean SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships Last Line: A-steaming down the bay. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing Last Line: Which out of sight and sound is passing, passing? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SHORE LINE, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: When the dry land appeared, and seas were called Last Line: That god made not a man -- and then a shore! Subject(s): Creation; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SILENCES, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like silence under the se Last Line: Are as silently slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Sea; Silence; Ocean SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It is a perfect summer day Last Line: "and know ""there is no joy but calm." Subject(s): Calm; Memory; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southward with fleet of ice Last Line: Sinking, vanish all away. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Sea; Ocean SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean SKETCH OF AN OCCURRENCE ON BOARD A BRIG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea Last Line: Where sank, and died alone, the broken-hearted maid. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SKYLINE TRAILS, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: Smooth grey macadam, or sunshiny rail Last Line: I go, to the summons of skyline trails. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SLEEP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sways the restless sea Last Line: In dreams love hath no smart, -- sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how we used to imagine Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Snow; Sea; Ocean SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO (THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF MARINES), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was spittin' into the ditch aboard o' the crocodile, Last Line: Soldier an' sailor too! Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Sea; Ocean SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail Last Line: And bear me away! -- away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 6. BORN TO THE PURPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most-like it was this kingly lad Last Line: As now thou rulest, smiling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG, by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the vast deep ocean Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the long, the wide dark seas Last Line: Far from the shore -- yea far! Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Love; Nightmares; Ocean SONG, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shall be thy lullaby Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Ocean SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream Last Line: The heart-break! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SONG, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Text First Line: The sea hath many thousand sands Last Line: Proves care's confessor at the last. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days men drew their sword Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir! Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean SONG (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what comes over the sea Last Line: And sail it slow or fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is alone in the sky Last Line: Beating to bliss that is past evermore. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Soul; Ocean SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day a rude brief recitative Last Line: All seas, all ships. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands Last Line: Again we grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG OF THE DANISH SEA-KING, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark is on the waters deep, our bright blade's in our hand Last Line: As proudly, through the foaming surge, the sea-king bears away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE FUTURE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that in a land so strong Last Line: Shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Freedom; Future; God; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SEA ROVER, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: The first day she was cold and still Last Line: The rovers of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I Last Line: The conqueror of space. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SEAFARERS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have forgotten the old ways of earth Last Line: Pray god, we never tread the earth again! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE SHELL, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Text First Line: The aged ocean is my nurse Last Line: Sing, ocean, surge and sing! Subject(s): Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And Last Line: Would they have really come? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs SONG ON THE WATER (1), by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild with passion, sorrow-beladen Last Line: As from the waves our oar. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 2, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text First Line: Lovers and mockers, both are despicable Last Line: The shore is everywhere. And always the sea calls.— Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG: 34, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden are you lonely Last Line: Standing there beside the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To seek each where where man doth live Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE: PRELUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the green bud and the red Last Line: The sacred spaces of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Soul; Youth; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 100, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love said, 'what is the sea?' Last Line: "heart of my heart!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 19, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sea's eternal rote Last Line: And croons the golden daylight down. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 32, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, lift your longing face up through the rain! Last Line: Calls the great heart of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw when I looked up, on either hand Last Line: Cry, thou black prophetess! Lift up! Cry, cry.' Subject(s): Birds; Omens; Prophecy & Prophets; Ravens; Sea; Ocean SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal-light flashes east Last Line: And all the stars above. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 3. WHEN THE WIND IS LOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind is low, and the sea is soft Last Line: But you are eternity. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Wind; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 6. LOVE AND INFINITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the kindling twilight moon Last Line: Were you not by! Subject(s): Love; Sea; Stars; Ocean SONNET, by ANDRE FONTAINAS Poem Text First Line: Sea-road a-tremble where the dawnlight swoons Last Line: And ware the cloud wherefrom the thunder's roll'd. Subject(s): Happiness; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONNET TO ALISA ROCK, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, thou craggy ocean pyramid! Last Line: Another cannot wake thy giant size. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET TO THE SEA SERPENT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welter upon the waters, mighty one Last Line: You are a great deal bigger than you are. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET-SONG: ORPHEUS AND THE MARINERS MAKE ANSWER, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Fleet, fleet and few, ay, fleet the moments Last Line: Peal the glad paean! (steady oars and sail.) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: 2, 22, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy bark from shore, though near the night Last Line: Between the sailing cloud and the seasick sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: 33. TO A LADY WHO DIED AT SEA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give Last Line: While time, and love, and memory shall endure, Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SONNET: 9, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown Last Line: Toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: CLEAVE THOU THE WAVES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cleave thou the waves that weltering to and fro Last Line: The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sea; Conduct Of Life; Ocean SONNET: SEA-MUSIC, by MATHILDA BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices of the whispering woods are still Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 36. STRONG, LIKE THE SEA, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: If god be dead, and man be left alone Last Line: Strong like the lone winds and the lonelier sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean SONNETS: 1. TO THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy god permits thee, but with dreadful hand Last Line: From us yet hidden and our blinded race. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.) Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean SPANISH LADIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell and adieu to you, fine spanish ladies" Last Line: With a health to each jovial and true-hearted soul Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY Poem Text First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean SPUMA DAL MARE (ON THE LATIN COAST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower o' the wave Last Line: The many-coloured. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Italy; Peacocks; Sea; Italians; Ocean SQUALL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming about, / when the squall knocked her Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Ocean STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why with its ring has the connecting sea Last Line: And speed its course with zealous heart and hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Peace; Sea; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Ocean STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean STARING AT THE PACIFIC, AND SWIMMING IN IT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind, she thinks Last Line: Haze, how the ocean holds Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Swimming & Swimmers STARING AT THE PACIFIC, AND SWIMMING IN IT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind, she thinks Last Line: Haze, how the ocean holds Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Swimming STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base Last Line: The spirits pass? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean STEPHANO'S SONG, FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I Last Line: Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang! Variant Title(s): A Sea Song;song Subject(s): Sea; Ocean STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!" Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean STORM AT SEA (1), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: The quarrelling winds perplex me. On this side Last Line: With great holes gaping, rent and torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM AT SEA (2), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: On top of all the rest comes on a new Last Line: We suffered, prove our manhood now! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM SIGNALS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-wreath, mist-sheath Last Line: The foam is bound to fly! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM-WAVES AND FOG ON DORR'S POINT, BAR HARBOR, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fog's gray curtain round me draws Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Fog; Harbors; Sea; Storms; Waves; Haze; Ocean STREET-CRIES: 2. THE SHIP OF EARTH, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ship of earth, with death, and birth, and life, and sex aboard Last Line: Prattville, alabama, 1868. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean STUDIES BY THE SEA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore do the incurious say Last Line: Round the green peopled earth, and call'd it good! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise Last Line: The intolerable thought none can ignore. Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean SUNBEAMS IN THE SEA, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no cloud in all the sky Last Line: Makes music evermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNRISE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dim light to the sou'ward Last Line: Climbs up out of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Dawn; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sunrise; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SUNRISE ON THE COAST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey dawn on the sand hills - the night wind has drifted Last Line: Behold, 'tis that marvel, the birth of a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean SUNSET AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where he sinks from sight Last Line: Above his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green! Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset my foot outreached the mounting pacific's Last Line: Like a dream all years moved to Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Pacific Ocean SWITZERLAND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see my bliss at hand Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE, by WALTER MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: The weather-leech of the topsail shivers Last Line: Eight bells have struck, and my watch is below. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TANKA: 2, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, somnolent, white Last Line: And live in the dawnlit sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TARA-BINDU, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the breeze falls asleep Last Line: Behind the emerald screen of the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Rest; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean THALASSA, by LOUISE SEYMOUR JONES Poem Text First Line: In a faraway mist Last Line: Endlessly long. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THALATTA, THALATTA!, by VIRGIL MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: The march wore on; vigor had ceased to be Last Line: Some silver gleam that speaks to me of home! Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow. Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE APPLES, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wounded seaman heard the ocean-daughters Last Line: Homeward to the deep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ARETHUSA, by PRINCE HOARE Poem Text First Line: Come, all ye jolly sailors bold Last Line: On board of the arethusa! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE ATLANTIDES, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smothered streams of love, which flow Last Line: And the ventures of past years. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Always the river called to him Last Line: Arms unseen now cling to him! Subject(s): Boats; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE BALLAD OF DEAD MEN'S BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea swings owre the slants of sand Last Line: That look upon that light. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF GREGORIE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I have now an argosy, a-sailing on the sea Last Line: You'll live in peace and plenty on an island all your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too Last Line: But I never believed the tale. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side Last Line: And now they keep an oyster-shop for mermaids down below. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE SEA-BORN MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered too far from the foam on the shore Last Line: Yet happily, most happily, beyond the hills I reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BATH, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the once lovely monster, in the tide Last Line: The foamy lash of the assaulting sea. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea; Ocean THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life Last Line: Between the land and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean THE BAY OF BISCAY, O!, by ANDREW CHERRY Poem Text First Line: Loud roared the dreadful thunder Last Line: From the bay of biscay, o! Subject(s): Biscay, Bay Of; Sea; Ocean THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have pined for the sight of the sea for years Last Line: Thrills others with rapture, but cannot charm me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, staunchly entering port Last Line: I only saw, at last, the beauty of the ship. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE BELL AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tide's billowy swell Last Line: Stern though it be! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bells; Sea; Ocean THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very best ship that ever I knew Last Line: Oh, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run. Subject(s): March (month); Sea; Ships & Shipping; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE BIRD AND THE SHIP, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers rush into the sea Last Line: Neither poet nor printer may know.' Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLACK RIDERS: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black riders came from the sea Last Line: Thus the ride of sin. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLACK RIDERS: 38, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean said to me once Last Line: "with a surplus of toys." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLUE WAKE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the blood-red sun sank in the western sky Last Line: To furnish her a home. Subject(s): Absence; Blue (color); Sea; Wakes; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE BOOK OF EXODUS: SONG OF THE SEA, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Now moses & now israel's children sing this song Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism; Sea; Ocean THE BOOK OF SEDIMENTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eye is an ocean bounded on every side by desert, Last Line: Through undreamed light and water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brook from a headland was falling Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink." Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE BUCCANEERS, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not for us the easy mirth Last Line: The fearful joy of fate. Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master! Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America THE BUOY-BELL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like the leper, with his own sad cry Last Line: Breathed in their distant homes by wife or child! Subject(s): Bell Buoys; Sea; Ocean THE BURIAL OF THE DANE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue gulf all around us Last Line: We have buried our dead! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BURTHEN OF THE TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide was dark and heavy with the burden that it bore Last Line: For more. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE CALL, by G. R. S. BLACKABY Poem Text First Line: The roaring torrent, on its urgent way Last Line: For evermore. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean THE CALL OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Gone are the days of canvas sails! Last Line: Haunting their houses till they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CALM [CALME], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage Last Line: I should not then thus feele this miserie. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Calm Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE CAPTAIN; A LEGEND OF THE NAVY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that only rules by terror Last Line: With one waft of the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea; English Navy; Ocean THE CASTAWAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE CASTLE BY THE SEA, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen that lordly castle Last Line: "no maiden was by their side!" Subject(s): Castles; Sea; Ocean THE CATFISH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean Last Line: If you know what it is! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign Last Line: Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Subject(s): Mollusks; Nautilus (shell); Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CHANNEL TUNNEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for less love, all glorious france, to thee Last Line: And spirit at one with spirit on either side. Subject(s): France; Sea; Ocean THE CHARNEL SHIP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The breeze blew fair, the waving sea Last Line: Mong the red coral groves for you. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CHILD AND THE MARINER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A dear old couple my grandparents were Last Line: No good in port or out' -- my grandad said. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CHILD AND THE OCEAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, ocean dear, all yesterday Last Line: "I'll never frighten you again." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Fear; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck like a blur of gold across the night Last Line: The thunders of his old unconquered might. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY-PARK, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: A haven in a stormy sea Last Line: Foaming along in endless tide! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CLIFFSIDE PATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down Last Line: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Subject(s): Sea; Sun; Wind; Ocean THE COAST OF BOHEMIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some still angel who, in toilless might Last Line: Of sea flamed loose -- and then we saw those isles. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Sea; Ocean THE COAST-ROAD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain Last Line: Not the least hurt by this ribbon of road carved on their sea-foot Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Death; Dead, The THE COCOA-NUT TREE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green and the graceful - the cocoa-nut tree Last Line: There will a picture of beauty be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Cocoa; Islands; Sea; Trees; Ocean THE COLD WAVE OF 32 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, o thaliarchus, and soracte's crest is / white Last Line: Hurry, o my thaliarchus, let us go that to there place. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CONQUEROR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears the whir of the battle Last Line: Into a tangle of endless wars. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; War; Ocean THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a solitude of the sea Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean THE CONVERTED CANNIBALS, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: Upon an island, all alone Last Line: However ornamental. Subject(s): Cannibals; Islands; Pacific Ocean; Sin THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toil on! Toil on! Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain. Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean THE COURSE OF TIME: OCEAN, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great ocean! Strongest of creation's sons Last Line: Thy great obeisance. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE COVES OF CRAIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon-white waters wash and leap Last Line: Amid the coves of crail. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Crail, Scotland; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP, by EMMA HART WILLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep Last Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep. Variant Title(s): In The Cradle Of The Deep Subject(s): God; Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the power that made the nautilus Last Line: And sailing onward ever seems at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE CUMBERBUNCE, by PAUL WEST Poem Text First Line: I strolled beside the shining sea Last Line: "the difference 'twixt 'might' and 'could'!" Subject(s): Nonsense; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE CUP OF OCEAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the cup of ocean hold? Last Line: Gaze within e'er ye bend and drink. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DAEMON, SELECTION, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the sightless seas of ether Last Line: And indifferent as they. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DANGER OF THE SEA; 13TH BOOK OF MACARONICS, by TEOFILO FOLENGO Poem Text First Line: The treacherous seas unwary men betray Last Line: Then y' had ne'er strove to reach the shore in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Coccaius, Merlinus; Coccaio, Merlino; Folengo, Girolamo Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEAD, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that breaks on the opposite shore Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL BENBOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you sailors bold Last Line: As our fathers did before / long ago Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia Last Line: And thine aequanimitas! Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE DEEP, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's beauty in the deep Last Line: There's quiet in the deep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MRS. THOMAS B. UPCHURCH Poem Text First Line: Oh restless sea! Confide in me Last Line: Roll on, thou deep blue sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP SEA CABLES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from Last Line: "and a new word runs between: whispering, ""let us be one!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP-SEA PEARL, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of my life came not Last Line: And the deep sea covers all. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE; FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Othere, the old sea captain, / who dwelt in helgoland Last Line: "behold this walrus-tooth!" Subject(s): Alfred, King Of Saxons (871-901); Explorers; Norway; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean THE DIVER, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sank through easeful Subject(s): Scuba Diving; Sea; Sports; Ocean THE DOLPHIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Take me, o sea! I plunge. My suit do not contemn! Of metamor Last Line: Attain the sun! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE EBBING TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A long low gurgle down the strand Last Line: Dense blue beneath the dense blue skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Tides; Ocean THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!" Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE EXPECTED SHIP, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I heard a poet say Last Line: That brings the ship from o'er the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War THE FAMOUS FIGHT AT MALAGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you brave sailors that sails on the main Last Line: Because with five frigates we did them destroy Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;sea;sea Battles; English Navy;ocean;naval Warfare THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE FIGUREHEAD, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This that is washed with weed and pebblestone Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FINAL FREEDOM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the grim end, no prison for me Last Line: "one with the wind and sky and sea." Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Love; Sea; Destiny; Liberty; Ocean THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly english yellowboy Last Line: With the dollars of peru! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wade / through black jade Last Line: Its youth. The sea grows old in it. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced Last Line: Quicken'd with touches of transporting fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Three Sonnets Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FLAME-TREE (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles the illawarra range Last Line: That wander not nor reach up higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Pacific Ocean THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unyielding in the pride of his defiance Last Line: One fog-walled island more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor! Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean THE FOOTSTEPS, by PAUL VALERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your steps, born of my silence here Subject(s): Love; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE FORSAKEN MERMAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear children, let us away Last Line: "the kings of the sea." Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Mothers; Sea; Elves; Ocean THE FRIEND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great friend Last Line: A profounder mystery. Subject(s): Friendship; India; Sea; Ocean THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GIFT OF THE SEA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead child lay in the shroud Last Line: "we let it die in the dark!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean THE GOLDEN VANITY (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a gallant ship, and a gallant ship was she" Last Line: And sink off the lowlands low Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE GRAVEDIGGER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old Last Line: Shoulder them in to shore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE GREAT DIVIDE, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I drift out on the silver sea Last Line: When I drift out on the silver sea. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE [SKERRY], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An earthly nourrice [nurse] sits and sings Last Line: He'll shoot both my young son and me Variant Title(s): The Silkie O' Sule Skerrie Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen;sea; Ocean THE GREEK GALLEY, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of the sea, the sway of the song, the swing of the oar! Last Line: We are home at last! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE GROUND SWELL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How soft the shades of evening creep Last Line: Their hearts throb silently! Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE HAGLETS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat Last Line: The abysm and the star. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE HAPPY PAIR, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came and went so lightly Last Line: A grandchild and a son. Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Sea; Ocean THE HERITAGE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: From the drear north, a cold and cheerless land Last Line: By the wild sea. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Sea; Ocean THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS Poem Text First Line: We have gone down to the sea Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock ticks on the old oak stair Last Line: Alone. . . . He understands. Subject(s): Fear; Kisses; Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE HURRICANE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who, safe on shore Last Line: And ruin is the lot of all. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sea; Ocean THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE IMPRISONED SEA-WINDS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices of strange sea breezes caught Last Line: And the sea's mystery sighs through all. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE INCHCAPE ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No stir in the air, no stir in the sea Last Line: The devil below was ringing his knell. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Eastward lies the island Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea? Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness THE JUMBLIES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went to sea in a sieve, they did Last Line: And they went to sea in a sieve. Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE LADY AT SEA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cables entangling her Last Line: "good lord deliver us!'" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Celia and I the other day Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die! Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean THE LANDSMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds that move not its calm surface sweep Last Line: Moves the calm spirit, but disturbs it not. Variant Title(s): The Ocean;the Gleaming Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one can take away from me Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea! Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean THE LAST BUCCANEER, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds were yelling, the waves were swelling Last Line: Of the flag of the last buccaneer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LAST CHANTEY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus said the lord in the vault above the cherubim Last Line: Who heard the silly sailor-folk and gave them back their sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE LESSER ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them dumb -- yet daily there uprise Last Line: Lost in the love of that diviner day. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE LIGHT, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: Firm on a rock the lighthouse stands Last Line: Wherever you choose to roam. Subject(s): Lighthouses; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE LIPS OF THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst win the rhythmic heart of things Last Line: Hang trembling ever on her darkling lips. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE LIVING SEA, FR. JOY O' LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like the city is unto the sea Last Line: Unhailed, unsignalled and unsignalling! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm Last Line: To see her red coats marching from the hill! Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to be with you, elate, unshared Last Line: Oh hasten hither my kestrel joy Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE MAIN DEEP, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long, rolling, / steady-pouring Last Line: ...Hush -- hushing.... Variant Title(s): The Main-deep Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE MALDIVE SHARK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the shark, phlegmatical one Last Line: Pale ravener of horrible meat. Subject(s): Hate; Sea; Sharks; Ocean THE MARINER, by RUTH ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: There was something about the sea that drew Last Line: For again he is sailing the uncharted seas. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more adrift Last Line: The life that used to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MARINERS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mariners sleep by the sea Last Line: The mariners sleep by the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE MARSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods have voices, and the sea Last Line: Till to thy bosom they return. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE MARSH AND THE SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marsh is full of ocean. Proud, serene Last Line: Down in the blessed deeps of life that you and god are one. Subject(s): God; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MASSACRE OF PERUGIA; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trumpet pealed thro' france. Then italy Last Line: Perugia on her fort-crowned hill Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nations; Sea; War; Ocean THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents THE MERMAID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, little millicent, and sit upon my knee Last Line: Oh, lovely they, with waves at play, but doom unto a ship! Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE MERMAIDS, by GWYNNE ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: Away with the blast of the wind that blows Last Line: And the waves carry off the rest. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE MIDNIGHT WATCH AT SEA, by HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dang! Dang! Two bells by the ship's clock Last Line: On the midnight watch. Alternate Author Name(s): James, Henry, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE MINSTREL SEA, by CHARLIE LINCOLN MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: Old ocean! Ocean ere first morn Last Line: The light-years since old ocean lave. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE MINUTE GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute guns. Subject(s): Coves; Guns; Sea; War; Ocean THE MINUTE-GUN, by RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE Poem Text First Line: When in the storm on albion's coast Last Line: The minute-gun at sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE MINUTE-GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute-guns. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Sea; Wind; Optimism; Ocean THE MIST AND THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mist crept in from the sea Last Line: The mist crept back to the sea. Subject(s): Mist; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MOUNTAINS STOOP TO HILLS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains stoop to hills and hills to stones Last Line: Whose stones and water carve a symphony. Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean THE MUSIC OF THE SEA, by QUINTIN BONE Poem Text First Line: I love the bold choir of the wild sea waves Last Line: To fling the story on a thousand coasts. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sea; Ocean THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard. Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean THE MYSTIC SEA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of the sea in my nostrils Last Line: "and the secret of life be clear." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE NORTH SHIP, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships go sailing by Last Line: And it was rigged for a long journey Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE OCEAN, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean has its silent caves Last Line: Beneath the dark blue waves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OCEAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that in venturous barks hath been Last Line: Or still the raging sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OCEAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clay / ganesha Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OCEAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean at the bidding of the moon Last Line: A tutelar fond voice, a saviour-tone of love! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OCEAN OF SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a land beyond sight or conceiving Last Line: And are gladder than gods are, with glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Light; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE OCEAN WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wandering & Wanderers;; Ocean THE OCEAN WOOD, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey woods within whose silent shade Last Line: Will bring no comfort home to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea; Ocean THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: I saw the old man pause, then turn his head Last Line: "for motors and joy-riders! All it's worth." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the old man of the sea - I Last Line: I'm the old man of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA; A NIGHTMARE DREAM BY DAYLIGHT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know the old man of the sea, of the sea? Last Line: And be sure that he'll have it on you! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE OLD RETIRED SEACAPTAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old sea-captain has sailed the Last Line: In the cloud of his beetling beard. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Discontent; Retirement; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dissatisfaction; Ocean THE OLD SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus THE OLIVE BRANCH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dove flew with an olive branch Last Line: And every ship an olive branch. Subject(s): Science; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Scientists; Ocean THE OMINOUS TIMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ominous are the times. They seem to be Last Line: And pious lips to pray unto their lord. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Lightning Rods; Ocean THE ONE-EYED CAT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the kelp the dame is gone, in guiana is the man, and the little Last Line: Owns the little house all day. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea; Ocean THE OPEN SEA, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the sea is lonely; better say Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE PACIFIC, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce courage his and will straight as a rune Last Line: Seek new gods though you never greet the old. Subject(s): Pacific Ocean THE PACIFIC, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The monarch of waters! The giant pacific! Last Line: And the chaos of change in thy morn rolled away. Subject(s): Hunting; Pacific Ocean; Treasures; Hunters THE PALACE OF ART, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house Last Line: When I have purged my guilt.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night Last Line: Yet sail another sea. Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean THE PEARL DIVER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kanzo makame, the diver, sturdy and small japanee Last Line: Plenty more japanee diver, plenty more little brown man!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pearls; Sea; Ocean THE PENDULUM, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: When the dumb darkness most heavily clings Last Line: Cold, ineluctable footsteps of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean THE PILLARS OF HERCULES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here ends at last the inland sea! Last Line: Steer oceanward by god's fixed stars! Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ocean THE PIPER OF ARLL, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was in arll a little cove Last Line: A plenitude of silver leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Pipers; Sea; Ocean THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin' Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down! Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 225, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great sea has no limit Last Line: In the open it shines without limit Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET'S JOURNAL: ON THE HEADLAND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the lonely headland Last Line: Or weep to see me dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE POLAR QUEST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconquerably, men venture on the quest Last Line: To find the mystic floodway of the north. Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean THE PORT OF PEACE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair crescent moon, with rim of gold Last Line: The stormy sea. Subject(s): Peace; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE PRAIRIE SPEAKING, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prairie Last Line: I am the prairie Subject(s): Love; Sea; Tourists; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE PRESS-GANG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's the tender coming Last Line: Full of red marines Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE PRIEST'S VIGIL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the land of the tribe was neither fish nor fruit Last Line: Sat in their stated seats and talked of the morrow apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Clergy; Islands; Sea; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Ocean THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD IN NANTUCKET, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brackish reach of shoal off madaket Subject(s): Sea; Whales; Ocean THE QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE QUIET TIDE NEAR ARDROSSAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to the beach the quiet waters crept Last Line: That with a whisper deepened all the seas. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE RECOMPENSE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ancient ocean, with what courage stern Last Line: Make pure the deeps of the aspiring soul. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Ocean THE RISING OF THE SUN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Wake! Wake to the hunting! Last Line: Forth to the hunting! The sun's riding high! Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Sea; Wolves; Hunters; Ocean THE RIVER RUNNING TO THE SEA, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river running to the sea Last Line: To front the larger sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Rivers; Sea; Strength; Tides; Water; Ocean THE ROCK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Encircled by the sea, a stony ledge Last Line: There shall be no more sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ROCK AND THE SEA, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the rock, presumptuous sea! Last Line: I am the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me not the woods are fair Last Line: My lone rock by the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE ROCK IN THE SEA, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of our blindness where the water burned Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Sea; Birds; Ocean THE ROCK OF CLOUD, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We heard a chanting in the fog Last Line: But never through the cloud. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ROCK POOL; TO MISS ALICE WARRENDER, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sea. In these uneven walls Last Line: Till on these rocks the waves returning break. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With neither bones nor skin Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers THE ROVER O' LOCHRYAN, by HEW AINSLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rover o' lochryan he's gane Last Line: "o' the waves that heaves us on." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ROWERS' CHANT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Row till the land dip 'neath Last Line: For which you sought. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Rowing; Sea; Ocean THE SAD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man whom sorrow named his friend Last Line: Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE SAILOR BOY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life you ask of? Why, you know Last Line: And what I will be for her sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou foul-mouthed wretch! Why dost thou choose Last Line: And you tell me to go to hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Parrots; Sea; Ocean THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION, by WILLIAM PITT (1778-1840) Poem Text First Line: One night came on a hurricane Last Line: "that you and I are sailors." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main. Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SANDS OF DEE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, go and call the cattle home Last Line: Across the sands o' dee. Subject(s): Sea; Tragedy; Ocean THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Behold the wonders of the mighty deep Last Line: And clumsy sailors tumble in Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a time when existence was young Last Line: May a ray from hope's star shed its light on my grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her cheeks were white, her eyes were wild Last Line: To smash his rocks with a dead child. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An everywhere of silver, / with ropes of sand Last Line: The track called land. Variant Title(s): Poem: 884;poem: 931 Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the sea Last Line: Men to all shores that front the hoary main. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poets have talked too much about the sea Last Line: And breathed the better for the secret love. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It keeps eternal whisperings around Last Line: Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: On The Sea;on The Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come down with me to the moon-led sea Last Line: Swinging beneath the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA, by EVA L. OGDEN Poem Text First Line: She was rich, and of high degree Last Line: "it's the very image of the sea!" Subject(s): Sea; Women; Ocean THE SEA, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! The sea! The open sea! Last Line: Shall come on the wild, unbounded sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): A Song Of The Sea Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE SEA, by MARGUERITE E. WETZEL Poem Text First Line: If I could paint the colors of the sea Last Line: The wondrous, boundless, open sea. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sea; Ocean THE SEA AND THE DESERT, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The sea / and the desert hate each other Last Line: With barrenness and heat and thirst. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean THE SEA BIRD TO THE WAVE, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On and on / o white brother! Last Line: Art thou gone! Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE SEA CHILD, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the world you sent her, mother Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Youth; Ocean THE SEA DREAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the loud waters, the loud and crying waters Last Line: Cities, sea-dreaming through the night! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Silence; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SEA HOLD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is large Last Line: The sea must know more than any of us. Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Sea; Ocean THE SEA IS HIS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is his: long leagues of shimmering flow Last Line: Your heart may hear the choiring seraphim! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA IS KIND: 2, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no kindlier cradle for your mood Last Line: "but all on deck: and was not the sea kind?" Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA LOVER, by LESLEY BATES Poem Text First Line: I will return to magellan; in the wind's teeth I am home Last Line: With the wail of the lost wind wandering over the waters. Subject(s): Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521); Sea; Ocean THE SEA LOVER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot be what the sea is Last Line: And changeful constancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA OF DEATH: A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw life swiftly treading over endless space Last Line: Of a dark dial in a sunless place. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE SEA SHINES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shines. Wind-raked, the waters run tight Last Line: Of what abundance, on what hammered shore Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA WIND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a pool in a peaceful place Last Line: The far-off, terrible call of the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA WITCH, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endlessly fell her chestnut flowers Last Line: Was laggard through her loveliness. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA'S LOVE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the days of old Last Line: T is but a wind that veers. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean THE SEA'S SPELL, by SUSAN MARR SPALDING Poem Text First Line: Beneath thy spell, o radiant summer sea Last Line: And though thou wreck me, will I love thee yet! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA-BIRD'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the deep is the mariner's danger Last Line: The only witness there. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Ocean THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean THE SEA-BORN, FR. JOY O' LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my heart Last Line: Where age may rest -- and yearn. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA-EAGLES OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Columbia's eagles of the sea Last Line: "have borne thy slogan: ""sail! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Birds; Columbia River (north America); Eagles; Sea; Ocean THE SEA-GRAVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her out in the open sea Last Line: For any storm to stir. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean THE SEA-GULL, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the white sea-gull, the wild sea-gull Last Line: For the sea is his truest home! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea; Seagulls; Ocean THE SEA-GULL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods are full of merry minstrelsy Last Line: Love's endless echoes keep. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE SEA-HOUNDS, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Relentless, the sea - hounds follow on Last Line: In spain or portugal or bright bombay. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE SEA-LIMITS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the sea's listless chime: / time's self it is, made audible Last Line: And earth, sea, man, are all in each. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA-MAIDEN'S VENGEANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A great gallant king of yore Last Line: Shrank the shore and shudd'ring foam / from king ruad's welcome home Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA-MEW, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from her cliffs sublime the sea-mew goes Last Line: Lend me thy wings, and let thy joys be mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Mews (birds); Sea; Ocean THE SEA-NYMPH, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, down a thousand fathom deep Last Line: There, in cool seas, I love to lave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Nymphs; Sea; Ocean THE SEA-SWALLOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fell when christmas lights were done Last Line: "the ways are sair fra' the till to the tyne." Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Sea; Nativity, The; Ocean THE SEA-WOLF, by LOUISE STEWART Poem Text First Line: The brown boats are sailing the wide seas tonight Last Line: Frae ruth o' the sea-wolf, dear god, bield oor men. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE SEABOARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word Last Line: The goal that is not, and ever again the goal. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean THE SEAFARER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A song I sing of my sea-adventure Last Line: Over the waves of the sea. . Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEAFARER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I may sing of myself now Last Line: In time without end! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SECRET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the sea deepens Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SECRET OF THE SEA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What pleasant visions haunt me Last Line: Sends a thrilling pulse through me. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEVEN WHISTLERS, by ALICE E. GILLINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whistling strangely, whistling sadly Last Line: How they're calling, calling, calling, pentruan of porthmeor? Alternate Author Name(s): Romany Rawny, The Subject(s): Sea; Whistles & Whistling; Ocean THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea? Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHELL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then I pressed the shell Last Line: To hear a car go jolting down the street! Subject(s): Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SHETLAND FISHERMAN, by DOROTHY PRIMROSE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, fair arose the summer dawn Last Line: And pamper'd luxury to weep. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty Last Line: And take on board a god! Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIP, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And lo! Upon the murmuring waves Last Line: Across the unfathom'd trackless ocean. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIP FROM TIRNANOGE, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two were alone by the sea Last Line: Out of the day, into the day. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SHIP OF RIO, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a ship of rio Last Line: For nuts across the sand! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Monkeys; Sea; Ocean THE SHIPS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh Last Line: On went she, and due north her journey took. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER Poem Text First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H. Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night Last Line: And sees not, but the gods look down on both. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Mythology; Sea; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK, SELECTION, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain the cords and axes were prepared Last Line: And pressed the stony beach, a lifeless crew! Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am already a singing flower Last Line: Your singing flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean THE SIREN STREAM TO THE OUTCAST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, for my waves that I can never know Last Line: To sooth and bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SIRENS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary Last Line: "here is rest and peace for thee!" Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ocean THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Within the appointed time he did compel Last Line: Once more his prow the frothy seas doth spurn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE SKIES ARE GAY, 'TIS MERRY MAY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Beyond the hedge the sea doth glint. Never shell shone so well. One Last Line: Weep his fate to-day. The skies are gay, 'tis merry may. Subject(s): May (month); Sea; Sky; Ocean THE SLOW PACIFIC SWELL, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Far out of sight, forever stands the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SONG OF AHES, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea made woman. My long hair Last Line: Whereon the clear sea's kisses now lie still. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SONG OF GLAUCUS, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! How blue, far off, the sonorous sea! Last Line: Will watch a long time if I do not come. Subject(s): Sea; Seaweed; Singing & Singers; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SONG OF PLUTO, by PHILIPPE QUINAULT Poem Text First Line: All men this path must tread Last Line: The ship unto her port. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE SONG OF THE PROW-GILDERS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the gilders of the prows Last Line: Beneath thy groaning galley-slaves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SONG OF THE SEA WIND, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it sings, sings, sings Last Line: How it wails! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King of the winds, o wind of the sea Last Line: Lord of all winds, o wind of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THE SONG OF THE WIND IN THE CLOUD, by ELLEN ROLFE VEBLEN Poem Text First Line: Rock, rock, my hollow boat! Last Line: Shiver by thy spell. Subject(s): Boats; Clouds; Cruise Ships; Motion; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE SONG THAT MOTHER SANG TO CUSH (IN NOAH'S ARK), by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O hush-a-bye, my darling, - hush! Last Line: Of hearts that know his love. Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Arks; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE SONGS OF MALDOROR: 9, by ISIDORE LUCIEN DUCASSE Poem Text First Line: I intend, unemotionally, to declaim aloud the cold and serious strophe Last Line: Ancient ocean! Alternate Author Name(s): Lautremont, Le Compte De Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Youth; Ocean THE SONNET'S VOICE (A METRICAL LESSON BY THE SEASHORE), by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach Last Line: Back to the deeps of life's tumultuous sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Ocean THE SOUND OF THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art sounding on, thou mighty sea! Last Line: So may our hearts repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SOUND OF THE SEA; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep Last Line: Of things beyond our reason or control. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SOWERS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woe to the seed Last Line: It finds a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Storms; Water; Ocean THE SQUIRE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sung me a stave, a stave or two Last Line: That ever death did house. Variant Title(s): The Young Squire Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Sea; Dead, The; Wine; Ocean THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a mighty ship Last Line: Star of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean THE STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since in athens god stood plain for adoration Last Line: What the vesture of his soul revealed on earth. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Sea; Ocean THE STORM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest rages wild and high Last Line: Gloria tibi domine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean THE STORM, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, rude boreas, blustering railer! Last Line: She rights! She rights, boys! We're off shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean THE STORM HUSHED, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Tis past -- the dreadful stormy night Last Line: My heart, my all, to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE STORM; TO MR. CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be so) Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Storm. To Mr Christopher Brooke Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Sea; Ocean THE STORMY WINDS DO BLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One friday morn when we set sail Last Line: For the raging seas Variant Title(s): The Mermaid (3) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE STREAM AND THE TARN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE STREETS IN THE SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the streets in the sea? Last Line: Along the streets of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SWEEP OF OCEAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperially free Last Line: May dare to know the confines of the shore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SWIMMER, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid Last Line: Where no light wearies and no love wanes. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SWIMMER (2), by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder, lo! The tide is flowing Last Line: And shadow-haunted ocean gleams! Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers THE TEMPEST, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing upon the margent of the main Last Line: And be as merciful as thou art chaste. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 10. THE PALATINE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk Last Line: Of the blazing wreck of the palatine! Subject(s): Block Island; Sea; Ocean THE THINGUMBOB SAT AT EVENTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wind; Ocean THE THREE BELLS [OF GLASGOW], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the low-hung night cloud Last Line: The lights of god draw nigh! Subject(s): Bells; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE THREE FISHERS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three fishers went sailing out into the west Last Line: And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. Variant Title(s): The Fisherman Subject(s): Sea; Tragedy; Ocean THE TIDE, by FLORENCE EUGENIA HILL Poem Text First Line: The tide is out and though the sky is bright Last Line: If I can but hold on, the tide will soon be in. Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Tides; Ocean THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.' Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean THE TREASURES OF THE DEEP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hid'st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Last Line: Restore the dead, thou sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE TWO OCEANS, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two seas, amid the night Last Line: Ne'er knew the track of a pilot. Subject(s): Rest; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE ULTIMATE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, of old, a chief died in the north Last Line: To the windless, unoared ultimate. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THE UNDERSONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sea-song of the blood in my heart Last Line: And of tears? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Nature; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE UNION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three in one, but one in three Last Line: The royal commonweal! Subject(s): God; Ireland; Nations; Sea; Irish; Ocean THE UNKNOWN HAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, o waves of ocean Last Line: On some distant strand. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VEILS OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three veils of silence, summer draws apace Last Line: And ache of inarticulate desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Sea; Silence; Summer; Ocean THE VIKING, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: O sister, flokar's ship is in! Last Line: Until he feels her arms again. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Vikings; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VISION OF THE SEA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A haunting face! With strange, ethereal eyes Last Line: A palpable bliss, yet wedded to a dream. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE VOICE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear his voice and the sea's voice Last Line: Two melodies? Subject(s): Sea; Voices; Ocean THE VOICE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sunrise, swimming out to sea Last Line: And answer that sweet calling. Subject(s): Parents; Sea; Parenthood; Ocean THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOICE OF THE SEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hush of the autumn night Last Line: And it all was long ago! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE VOICE OF THE SEA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, break, break Last Line: Thou wilt in the coming day! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Anglers; Ocean THE VOICE OF THE SEA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was hoary, hoary Last Line: O fallen star of morn? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made myself a little boat Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun! Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold Last Line: Of elephanta, the red. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two women on the lone wet strand Last Line: (and heaven on the long reach home.) Subject(s): Sea; Grief; Ocean; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent hour of even Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean THE WAVE, by MARK TURBYFILL Poem Text First Line: The wave stretches its instant body Last Line: But not for flight. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE WAVE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the sea again! The laughing sea Last Line: Sweeping me out of languor back to life. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children are we Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean THE WAVES AT MIDNIGHT; THE CLIFFS, NEWPORT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen in the night by / their snows, as they crush Last Line: Wail, crushed at an answerless cliff-wall for me. Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boat that sails upon the sea Last Line: And watch and prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE WAY TO THE SEA, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: Two mountain lakes serenely lie Last Line: They both, at last, shall find the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WELSH SEA, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out across carnarvon bay Last Line: And call across the years. Subject(s): Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE WHILE THEY CRADLE CLOTHES...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And those who do their washing in a stream Last Line: That men who labour gather while they toil. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Sea; Work; Workers; Ocean THE WHITE SQUALL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was bright, and the bark rode well Last Line: And the bark is 'gulfed in an ocean grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms; Ocean THE WIDEST HEARTHSTONE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home is where the heart is, and my heart is on the sea Last Line: Home is where the heart is and my heart is on the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WIFE OF MISSION ROCK, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing curves at sea, Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WILD MARE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a breath that comes and goes Last Line: The challenging scream of the conqueror-stallion. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses; Rome, Italy; Sea; Ocean THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, blow Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind went forth o'er land and sea Last Line: In tenderness or wrath, on land or sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Sea; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE WIND AND THE SEA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by the shore at the death of day Last Line: "the sea says: ""I repent." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WIND IN THE TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound of waters in the tree Last Line: Find the belovèd sea at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Sea; Trees; Ocean THE WIND'S WORD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star that I love, / the sea, and I Last Line: All these did he have -- and he is dead.' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean THE WINGED EROS OF TUNIS, RECOVERED FROM THE SEA NEAR MAHDIA IN 1904, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful bronze boy, wing Last Line: Of the waves for our worship and love. Subject(s): Artifacts; Rebirth; Sea; Ocean THE WONDER-SPRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, there's joy in the spume and the wonder-spray Last Line: To the land that the gods endow. Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD'S TREASURES, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Structures, raised by morning dreams Last Line: Sows the sea, and ploughs the sand. Subject(s): Sea; Transience; Ocean; Impermanence THE WRAITH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mist commingled with her tears Last Line: Forsakes the watery grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE WRECK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm and unconscionable winds once cast Last Line: And, sipping of contrast, finds the day more fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee" Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the schooner hesperus, / that sailed the wintry sea Last Line: On the reef of norman's woe! Subject(s): Disasters; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE YACHTS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Contend in a sea which the land partly encloses Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Yachts & Yachting; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE YARN OF THE 'NANCY BELL', by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the shores that round our coast Last Line: "and the crew of the captain's gig!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE YELLOW FEVER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The sky is pure, the clouds are light Last Line: The spirit was -- but is not there! Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sea; Yellow Fever; Dead, The; Ocean THE YOUNG MARINERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bred up beside the rugged coast, three brothers bold were we Last Line: The ocean for our play-place, and the petrel for our toy. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ZEALLESS XYLOGRAPHER; DEDICATED TO THE END OF THE DICTIONARY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A xylographer started to cross the sea Last Line: In a xanthic xebec went sailing the main. Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Dictionaries; Sea; Ocean THERE'S A SALT WIND ROAMING, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT Poem Text First Line: There's a salt wind roaming the prairie grass Last Line: Who live in me again. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THETIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had asked for immortal life Last Line: A river's blue. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sea; Ocean THIN ICE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this paste of ash and water Last Line: This cold's life, death's steamy mark and target. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Atlantic Ocean; Death; Ice; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THIS LAND, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Beloved sea, fall gently on this land Last Line: Your loveliness long after I depart. Subject(s): Pride; Sea; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean THREE BRETON POEMS: 3. AZENOR, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seamen, seamen, tell me true Last Line: Protect all toilers on the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THREE FACES: 1. VENTIMIGLIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank Last Line: The sky and sea. Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Sky; Ocean THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 3. HOUND OF THE SEA, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: The wind is the great white hound of the sea Last Line: Leaping at the running mountain-tops of foam! Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; AFTER INGMAR BERGMAN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are out bathing in the sea at night Last Line: Who escort us to and from shock therapy... Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Family Life; Happiness; Night; Sea; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Ocean THROW ROSES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw roses on the sea where the dead went down Subject(s): Sea; Death; Roses; Ocean; Dead, The TIDE PICKERS, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Question marks at the tide line, dark figures bend Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TIDE POOLS IN DECEPTION PASS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child's microcosm of monsters Subject(s): Crabs; Sea; Ocean TIME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomable sea! Whose waves are years Last Line: Unfathomable sea? Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean TIR NAN OG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze blows out from the land Last Line: That burns the heart from my breast with the wish to go! Subject(s): Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A MIDSHIPMAN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off on the daring curacoa Last Line: With an interrogation -- Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Admirals; Chocolates; Sea; Ocean TO BLISS CARMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the morning's poet-- Last Line: The dawning's troubadour. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Morning; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean TO C. M. D., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as some have dreamed Last Line: Still you with me and I with you. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean TO EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting Last Line: Once, ere the flame received him from the sea.}/it Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver ship, my king - that was her name Last Line: Honolulu, feb. 3, 1889. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If to be absent were to be Last Line: In heaven, -- their earthly bodies left behind. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Absence; Immortality; Love; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blaw the lee-lang way Last Line: This happy lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean TO MISS CORNISH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, lady, that to-day Last Line: Miss cornish, on your natal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Birthdays; Sea; Women; Ocean TO MY FRIENDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know your kindness for me, o, my friends Last Line: By all the wind and stars of night and day! Subject(s): Curses; Friendship; Kindness; Love; Sea; Ocean TO NATURE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I rise to offer with pure joy Last Line: On all the stars that shine and winds that blow. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sea; Wind; Joy; Delight; Ocean TO NED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the world we roved, ned bunn? Last Line: Here and hereafter, touch a paradise. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TO SWINBURNE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art to me a faery king Last Line: Sea, wind and sun, the gods who rule the earth. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean TO THE CRICKET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chiming seas may clang; and Last Line: Thou poor plebeian minstrel of the hearth. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Crickets; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean TO THE HARBORMASTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to be sure to reach you Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where hast thou floated, in what seas pursued Last Line: To feed a bard, and to be praised in verse. Subject(s): Halibut; Sea; Ocean TO THE NAUTILUS, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where ausonian summers glowing Last Line: To the great will that animates the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TO THE OCEAN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I rebuke thee, ocean, my old love Last Line: Next to her soil, my grave be found in thee! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TO THE SHIP OF STATE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, o bark, the waves that wish to Last Line: And shun the treacherous waters of the shining cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TO-NIGHT ACROSS THE SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night I sent a dream across the sea Last Line: The mournful seas impart. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew Last Line: His soul has gone aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TONIGHT, WALT WHITMAN, THE PACIFIC, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tonight, soul mate, I summon you out of the pacific Last Line: Singing your angelic song Subject(s): Anniversaries; California; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Singing And Singers; Travel TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, where, or how, it matters not a damn Last Line: Poor tin jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOUT PASSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I watch the crystal stream Last Line: The faces that are gone. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Faces; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY THE SHORE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night by the shore Last Line: Among you)—and turn landward over the rustling beach. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land Last Line: Have! Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-ocean, night Last Line: Light sways slowly. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER THE DAY'S WORK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing by,passing by all exteriors Last Line: Waves. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Sea; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean TRACKING, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, carolyn, the ocean has its depths, it mezzanine Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TRAFALGAR DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leads: we hear our seaman's call Last Line: Till setting of her sun. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRANSMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell expressed the verity Last Line: A wing -- a soaring life, I mean. Subject(s): Air; Sea; Sky; Ocean TRANSPARENT STRATAGEMS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be unseen: a key to sea survival Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TRIPOLI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the singing on the boats Last Line: Tripoli! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean TRISTAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 2. THE QUEEN'S PLEASANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night arose the second day Last Line: And all the sea lay subject to the sun. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Morning; Sea; Sun; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;' Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night. Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 4. THE MAIDEN MARRIAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring watched her last moon burn and fade with may Last Line: All night safe sleeping in her maidenhood. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Sea; Spring; Tristram And Isolde; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 5. ISEULT AT TINTAGEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that same night in cornwall oversea Last Line: Woke with glad eyes iseult of brittany. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Love; Sea; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 6. JOYOUS GARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little time, o love, a little light Last Line: And life in them sank silent as the night. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Sea; Tristram And Isolde; Ocean TRITON ESURIENS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How cold and hungry is the sea today Last Line: "looms the sad frown of an eternal ""nay." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TWILIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight is sad and cloudy Last Line: Drive the colour from her cheek? Subject(s): Absence; Children; Dusk; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Ocean TWILIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh day of shadows and scents! Oh day of roses! Last Line: Have mercy! Give me back the one I need! Subject(s): Evening; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean TWILIGHT AT SEA, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight hours, like birds, flew by Last Line: And held it trembling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Stars; Ocean TWO BARDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard who wrote in staves Last Line: The bitter north. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Singing & Singers; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean; Songs TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two lonely women met Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!" Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean TWO NOCTURNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains TWO PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing of a love lost and forgotten Last Line: "-- ""oh for the silence that stilleth all sighs."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean TWO POINTS OF VIEW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus Last Line: The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Storms; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean TWO PRELUDES: 2. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate out of the deep sea's gloom Last Line: Fate. Subject(s): Fate; Roundels; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Ocean ULTIMA THULE: DEDICATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas Last Line: From the unending, endless quest. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ULTIMA THULE: THE TIDE RISES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tide rises, the tide falls Last Line: And the tide rises, the tide falls. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When ululani went to feed Last Line: Will shine for ululani. Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes UNDER THE PLANE TREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my wall / and plane-tree tall Last Line: The home in which they find repose. Subject(s): Lakes; Plane Trees; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Sycamores; Ocean UNDER THE SEA, by HESTER ANDERSON REIDER Poem Text First Line: Pale glimmering amber light through shadowed green Last Line: While in its wake the glittering bubbles gleam. Subject(s): Sea; Wellesley College; Ocean UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 28. TO MY FATHER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace and her huge invasion to these shores Last Line: Some lost, complaining seaman pilot home. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Sea; Ocean UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 34. SKERRYVORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For love of lovely words, and for the sake Last Line: The name of a strong tower. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Lighthouses; Sea; Ocean UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 6. A VISIT FROM THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the loud sea beaches Last Line: Why is the sea-gull flying? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Sea; Ocean VAIN, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: I sought a maiden who would be Last Line: "reflected in a silver sea." Subject(s): Sea; Vanity; Ocean VARIATIONS: 15, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea falls all night on the yellow sand Last Line: Immortally slaying, immortally dying. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean VICTORIA (JUNE 22, 1893), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen! What is this that comes Last Line: Stat matris gloria!' Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sea; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Ocean VIOLIN SONGS: OUR SHIP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a great ship coming home Last Line: Is steering home this way! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean VIOLIN SONGS: PICTURE SONGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale green sky is gleaming Last Line: Still it rises again! Subject(s): Death; Horseback Riding; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean VIOLIN SONGS: SUMMER SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murmuring, 'twixt a murmur and moan Last Line: "but it tells me I love you eternally." Subject(s): Love; Sea; Secrets; Summer; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VOICE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the sea that calls to me Last Line: Back to your halls to claim my place. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean VOICES OF THE AIR, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But then there comes that moment rare Last Line: The shrill quick sound that the insect makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Air; Sea; Voices; Wind; Ocean VOICES OF THE SEA, by THOMAS DURFEE Poem Text First Line: On the lone rocks of rye Last Line: My spirit replieth. Subject(s): Rye, New Hampshire; Sea; Ocean VOYAGERS, by WILLIAM E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was part of the lore of a sea-coast town Last Line: Ay, wearied with questing for the vanished isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Faust, Henri Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips VOYAGERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O maker of the mighty deep Last Line: Thy sea is great, our boats are small. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Sea Is Great, Our Boats Are Small Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision; Fancy; Ocean WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WAR NOTES: 1. 'EXTRAS', by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crocuses in the square Last Line: With heaven's own patience are calm and sweet. Subject(s): Faces; May (month); Nations; Sea; War; Ocean WATER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a maine lobster town Subject(s): Maine (state); Sea; Ocean WATER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-venus in dissolving beauty Last Line: From living waters into birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Venus (goddess); Ocean WATER WOMAN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lived here so long, she Last Line: When she was done. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Water; Ocean WAVES AND TIDES, by JOHN RENWICK TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In sweep the waves to wash the sands Last Line: Of laughing ever after. Subject(s): Laughter; Sea; Seashore; Tides; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WE BE THREE POOR MARINERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And he that is a bully boy / come pledge me on the ground Subject(s): Navigation;sea; Ocean WE SHALL BE SATISFIED, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: The course of the weariest river Last Line: "we shall be ""satisfied." Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows; Rivers; Sea; Ocean WELCOME TO THE GREAT AMERICAN OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloha! Wahwah! Quelle raison? Last Line: Why, then beware your bloomin' selves. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Pacific Ocean WHEN WE ARE UPON THE SEAS, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On those great waters now I am Last Line: Due thanks and praise to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WHEN YOU ARE ON THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I laugh or dance as others do Last Line: When you are on the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean WHERE IS THE SEA?; SONG OF THE GREEK ISLANDER IN EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the sea? -- I languish here Last Line: -- where is my own blue sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Sea; Ocean WHERE KITCHENER SLEEPS, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grim and iron-bastioned Last Line: Thunder at bursay's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Sea; World War I; Ocean; First World War WHERE LEAPS THE STE. MARIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What dream you in the night-time Last Line: Then, your aftermath of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean WHERE LIES THE LAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? Last Line: Is with me at thy farewell, joyous bark! Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WHERE SHALL WE LAND?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All listlessly we float Last Line: "where shall we land?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean WHERE THE MOUNTAIN SIPS THE SEA, by CHARLES JAMES Poem Text First Line: Where the mountain sips the sea Last Line: Heed it, and you will rejoice. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean WHILE THE MUSICIAN PLAYED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was but a dream I had Last Line: That voyaged with the crew. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): A Dream (2) Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean WHO, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Full Text First Line: The long and melancholy wind Subject(s): Freedom; Sea; Liberty; Ocean WHOLE SEAS OVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half seas over' in ruin is drowned Last Line: Over the whole of the sundering sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WILL (1), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate Last Line: And waits an hour sometimes for such a will. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean WIND AND SEA, by THOMAS KEOHLER Poem Text First Line: O fierce and rushing sea! O clamorous wind! Last Line: For me, for me alone is death's glad peace. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND AND SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An idle group within the willow's shade Last Line: Crying, vengeance, vengeance! All the summer night. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean WIND AND SEA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is a jovial comrade Last Line: Are singing the selfsame strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND FROM THE SEA, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Garden and wold by winter's hand are gript Last Line: The bud that in america was blown. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND ON THE SEA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of the sea is in my heart Last Line: That may not wander as the wind or return as the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN Poem Text First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me. Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs WIND, MOON, AND TIDES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look when the clouds are blowing Last Line: Is flung upon the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes Last Line: Winstanley lieth low. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs WINTER DUSK, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prospect is bare and white Last Line: And wiggles its silver tail. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Winter; Ocean WINTER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many-maned scud-thumper, tub Last Line: Portly pusher of waves, wind-slave Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WISHES; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Would that I were very far away Last Line: And heard thy gentle voice, my mother kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Wishes; Ocean WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the purple drifts Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean WITH A NANTUCKET SHELL, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send [thee] a shell from the ocean beach Last Line: Than ever were lost at sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology WITH THE S/S ITALIA, by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: It was in 1963 or '64 Last Line: I could not retrieve her name from the years. %what is her name? Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Ships And Shipping WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whitheraways! - that's what I'll have to call Last Line: The crying -- 'twill be easier for them to! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea; Words; Vocabulary; Ocean WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken and maimed and bruised Last Line: And the laughing lovers worship god. Subject(s): Death; God; Sea; Worship; Dead, The; Ocean WRECK OF THE STEAMER MOHEGAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And pray to god to protect him at night before ye sleep. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Sea; Steamboats; Survival; Dead, The; Ocean WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in the month of dark december Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are white dreams I' the dusk, yet sweeter far Last Line: White joy, white peace, white balm that healeth me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean YOUNG SEA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is never still Last Line: Where storms and stars come from. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean |
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