On a lazy summer day I kin hear the ocean say Sorter longin' to the beach, Wish -- wish, In a dreamy-reamy speech, Wish -- wish -- wish! Wonder wot it's wishin' fer! Ain't a livin' emperer Got a patchin' to the gold -- (Wish -- wish) -- That the sea is s'posed to hold. (Wish -- wish -- wish!) Treasure vessels by the score Lyin' on the ocean floor, Rubies, dimun's, gems, an' sich -- (Wish -- wish) -- Don't the ocean know it's rich? (Wish -- wish -- wish!) Wonder w'y it's reachin' out. Ain't no capital about, Ain't no plunder wuth a pin -- (Wish -- wish) -- Fer its waves to gether in. (Wish -- wish -- wish!) Ho! I've got it! Look at those Summer girls in summer clo'es! Poor old ocean! 'f I were you -- (Wish -- wish) -- I 'ud be a-wishin' too! (Wish -- wish -- wish!) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPIGRAM: 59. ON SPIES by BEN JONSON ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) THE DIVISION OF POLAND by EDWIN ARNOLD CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 3. OF CONTENTMENT by WILLIAM BASSE SONG, BY -- by JAMES HAY BEATTIE THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 1. THE MANDARIN SPEAKS by WILLIAM A. BEATTY WHITENESS, OR CHASTITY by JOSEPH BEAUMONT HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 31 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |