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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED
First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water
First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water
Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Out past the rim of the sky?
Charts have not told the quaint lands I behold
From this gray rock where I lie.
Hunter, hunter, what do you seek
Climbing the mountain side?
No game is there like the wild thoughts I snare
Watching the turn of the tide.
Fisherman, fisherman, drag in your nets;
Come from the perilous seas.
My dream nets hold strange fish, blue and gold,
Here where I lie at ease.
Sailor and fisherman drift down the sky,
Woods hide the hunter from me;
So fisherman, hunter, and sailor am I,
Playing with dreams by the sea.
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