Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the mad sea ravens for its prey Last Line: Where sea and storm and life shall be no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
OUTSIDE the mad sea ravens for its prey, Shut from it by a floating plank I lie; Through this round window search the faithless sky, The hungry waves that fain would rend and slay, The live-long, blank, interminable way, Blind with the sun and hoarse with the wind's cry Of wild, unconquerable mutiny, Until night comes more terrible than day. No more at rest am I than wind and wave; My soul cries with them in their wild despair, I, who am Destiny's impatient slave, Who find no help in hope, nor ease in prayer, And only dream of rest, on some dim shore Where sea and storm and life shall be no more. | 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 A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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