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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEAS OF ENGLAND, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The seas of england are our old delight
Last Line: To all earth's ships that sailing heave in sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: The seas of england are our old delight
Last Line: To all earth's ships that sailing heave in sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
The seas of England are our old delight;
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore
Sing freedom on her breezes evermore
To all earth's ships that sailing heave in sight!
The gaunt sea-nettle be our fortitude,
Sturdily blowing where the clear wave sips;
O, be the glory of our men and ships
Rapturous, woe-unheeding hardihood!
There is great courage in a land that hath
Liberty guarded by the unearthly seas;
And ev'n to find peace at the last in these
How many a sailor hath sailed down to death!
Their names are like a splendour in old song;
Their record shines like bays along the years;
Their jubilation is the cry man hears
Sailing sun-fronted the vast deeps among.
The seas of England are our old delight;
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore
Sing freedom on her breezes evermore
To all earth's ships that sailing heave in sight!
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