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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LANDSMAN, by MOSCHUS 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
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
WHEN winds that move not its calm surface sweep
The azure sea, I love the land no more;
The smiles of the serene and tranquil deep
Tempt my unquiet mind. But when the roar
Of ocean's gray abyss resounds, and foam
Gathers upon the sea, and vast waves burst,
I turn from the drear aspect to the home
Of earth and its deep woods, where, inter-spersed,
When winds blow lound, pines make sweet melody.
Whose house is some lone bark, whose toil the sea,
Whose prey the wandering fish, an evil lot
Has chosen. But I my languid limbs will fling
Beneath the plane, where the brook's murmuring
Moves the calm spirit, but disturbs it not.
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