Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, calm, sleeping sea! Awake and tell Last Line: Till her face again be seen.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
O SEA, calm, sleeping Sea! awake and tell What o'er thee hath cast this soothing spell? 'Brightly the young moon is beaming From her purple throne, On my waveless breast is gleaming Radiance all her own. I have hushed each booming billow For her peerless royal brow Resteth on my glistening pillow Like a sleeping angel now.' O Sea, glad and playful Sea! what meanest thou? What do thy white-winged wavelets carol now? 'Merrily they all are singing, For with golden hand, Silver fetters she is flinging O'er my fairy band. 'Neath them blithely are they dancing, And her jewels rare and bright In their waving crests are glancing Liquid diamonds of light.' O Sea, wild, raging Sea! what horrors dire Have raised thy maniac wrath, thy frenzied ire? 'Seest thou not the lightning flashing From yon lurid cloud? Fiercely are my billows dashing, Foaming, roaring loud, For the frowning sky is veiling Darkly o'er their beauteous Queen: Fury mingleth with their wailing Till her face again be seen.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS CONSECRATION HYMN by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME? by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MY FATHER, 1860 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL |
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