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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA LOVE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND
First Line: O I am never lonely if I can smell the sea
Last Line: In the dawn.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean
First Line: O I am never lonely if I can smell the sea
Last Line: In the dawn.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean
O I am never lonely if I can smell the sea,
Or hear the lyric thunder
Of the surf on rocks or sand,
Or watch the pale green water as it rises and turns under
In a breaving wave white-tipped and beautiful;
While the wind drives some fleet ship
Straight against the cobalt sky
Till its white sails rise and dip
Like a gull.
But I am ever lonely in a city's crowded street,
Where the tide of life is beating
In the heat or in the cold,
And the waves are men and women, stern-faced that give no greeting,
Ever moving like a stream that none can stay;
While the sky that covers all,
That great sea that surges on
Between buildings great and small,
Is smoke gray.
O I am never lonely if I am near the sea,
At morning, or at noontime,
Or at slipping of the day,
Or in the heavy darkness that gives way before full moontime
When waves are still and wings and sails are gone,
Or in the deep of night
When a chill wind shakes the stars
Till they lose their yellow light
In the dawn.
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