Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA MIST, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON 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 | ||||||||
The sea assumes her most mysterious dress, And vainly homing ships her films explore For castled ports upon familiar shore. Lost now, Atlantis-like, beyond all guess. Hearken the eerie bugles of distress That wail across a wilderness of hoar Where mighty squadrons have become no more Than phantoms on a tide of nothingness. It is as if the unconquerable sea, Weary of ships, and weary of man's boast That he had tamed her tide and chained her coast And bound her tempests to his sovereignty, Bade Mist, her frailest servitor, efface The ramparts and armadas of his race. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS THE ROAD TO FRANCE by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON |
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