Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 2. THE OCEAN STEAMER, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: With streaming pennons, scorning sail and oar Last Line: Which hailed her coming as a thing sublime. Subject(s): Steamboats | ||||||||
WITH streaming pennons, scorning sail and oar, With steady tramp and swift revolving wheel, And even pulse from throbbing heart of steel, She plies her arrowy course from shore to shore. In vain the siren calms her steps allure; In vain the billows thunder on her keel; Her giant form may toss and rock and reel And shiver in the wintry tempest's roar; The calms and storms alike her pride can spurn. True to the day she keeps her appointed time. Long leagues of ocean vanish at her stern -- She drinks the air, and tastes another clime, Where men their former wonder fast unlearn, Which hailed her coming as a thing sublime. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 4: LORD STANHOPE'S STEAMER by T. BAKER MID-OCEAN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP by EDWARD CARPENTER REFLECTIONS, ON CROSSING LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN A STEAMBOAT by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON THE STEAMBOAT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE' by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.' by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA' by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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