Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SEA IS KIND: 2, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE



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THE SEA IS KIND: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no kindlier cradle for your mood
Last Line: "but all on deck: and was not the sea kind?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean


"THERE is no kindlier cradle for your mood,
Young lovers dear, than open boat at large;
Dream the girl mother and her babe there; brood
O'er Danae, the wide sea's delicate charge.

"Think, all the boat she had was just a chest,
While all her sail spread but to let breeze through,
(Being long flapping hair); and all her crew
That babe who nuzzled at her domed breast;

"Her only sweeps, arms trimly turned and bladed
With playful tender hands; never a rope,
Never a mast which through the gale should slope
In eager haste. Her never pilot aided,

"Yet she thrid shoals, did tack and foil the wind.
Mere beauty was her cargo, not for sale,
None 'neath tarpaulin stowed, none in a bale,
But all on deck: and was not the sea kind?"





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