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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er Last Line: Our sails swell full! To sea! To sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean | |||
TO sea! to sea! the calm is o'er, The wanton water leaps in sport, And rattles down the pebbly shore, The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, And unseen mermaid's pearly song Comes bubbling up, the weeds among. Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar: To sea! to sea! the calm is o'er. To sea! to sea! our white-winged bark Shall billowing cleave its watery way, And with its shadow, fleet and dark, Break the caved Triton's azure day, Like mountain eagle soaring light O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves! The ship swings free! Our sails swell full! To sea! to sea! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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