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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA SONG, by HENRY MILSTEAD
First Line: The sea is a blue-backed stallion
Last Line: My cares with a coral comb.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: The sea is a blue-backed stallion
Last Line: My cares with a coral comb.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
The sea is a blue-backed stallion
With white foam at his mouth,
And hitched to a rolling galleon
He gallops away to the South;
His flanks are the heaving breakers,
His mane is the stinging spray,
He ranges the vast sea acres
Billowing far away.
His hollow hoofbeats thunder
Over hidden rock and reef;
He tramples stout ships under
While the shore lies stark with grief;
But the roar of the raging billow,
The chant of the swinging sea,
Brings balm to the seaman's pillow,
And peace to the soul of me.
Where square-rigged schooners wander,
Where storm-lashed frigates ride,
And ancient junks that squander
Bright days on a glassy tide,
There my vagrant fancy travels
Far out where the sea gulls roam,
And the deep green tide unravels
My cares with a coral comb.
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