Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCEANO NOX, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails | ||||||||
Oh! how many mariners, how many captains Who set off lighthearted for faraway journeys Are vanished in this mournful horizon! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How many skippers dead with their crews! The Ocean took all the pages of their lives And with one puff scattered them over the waves. None will know their end sunk in the deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . None will know their names, not even the humble stone In the narrow cemetery where echoes answer us, Not even the green weeping willow shedding its leaves in the fall, Not even the plaintive monotonous song Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SAILS OF MURMUR by ANSELM HOLLO THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH] by CHARLES DIBDIN HOW'S MY BOY? by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL LOVE AT SEA by THEOPHILE GAUTIER A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851 by VICTOR MARIE HUGO |
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