O TO be a sea-bird one celestial day, Sailing, sailing, sailing past the wind away! All the crested billows rolling bright below, All the boundless heaven balm and light and glow; Ah, what life, what rapture wide-winged thus to fly, In God's azure only sun and sea and I! O to poise in ether, high o'er cloudy bars, Where the cross at midnight burns among the stars! See, to eastward, Andes lift their snows in air, Westward bowery islands beckoning, Eden-fair; Ah, what life, what rapture, wide-winged thus to fly, In God's azure only sun and sea and I! O the primal freedom, O the glorious ease, Flashing down the breakers, floating with the breeze! Still in rosy morning, sunset's golden shine, Sailing, sailing, sailing blithe above the brine! Ah, what life, what rapture, wide-winged thus to fly, In God's azure only sun and sea and I! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOADICEA; AN ODE by WILLIAM COWPER OPEN, TIME by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY THE YANKEE PRIVATEER by ARTHUR HALE AUTUMN SONG by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE by EDMUND SPENSER TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON by ALFRED TENNYSON SONGS OF LABOR: DEDICATION by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 3 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |