Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the bourns of time and sleep Last Line: This sailor's requiem! Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean | ||||||||
BEYOND the bourns of time and sleep, Beyond the sway of tides, A voyager o'er death's darksome deep, His ship at anchor rides. He who from boyhood never knew A garden save the foam, Whose only rooftree was the blue, At last has found a home. And what more fit than that the wave He loved through life to stem Should sing above his green sea grave This sailor's requiem! | 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 |
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