Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea! Last Line: With earth's humanity! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) | ||||||||
O Sea! O Sea! O Sea! Ah, raving hungry Sea! When wilt thy heartless greed be satisfied, Or wilt thy cruel craving be supplied With earth's humanity! Stay thou, O Sea, thy long and mighty arm, That icy, icy arm, That awful, awful arm That sweeps so far that we Must ever shudder with the sense of harm, Must feel and fear with merciless alarm The cold embrace of thee! When rocking on the bosom of thy wave, Thy rippling, rolling wave, Thy swinging surging wave, We rest in ecstasy, Mar not the dreams of happiness we crave, Ope not thy deep and dark abysmal grave To seal our destiny! Oh, spare us from yon tragic spectre there, That grewsome spectre there; That deadly spectre there Where the Titanic be! Dear hearts there to baptism did repair In this the soul's triumphant hour of prayer, In true nobility! Lo! who are those great beings over there, Those toiling figures there, Those smiling faces there 'Mid death and misery? They're heroes kissing babes and women fair Farewell for homes they ne'er with them can share Again beyond the sea! O ye sea-gulls that wing about the scene, This dreadful sorrow scene, This martyr-crimson scene Of saddest memory, Beneath these briny waters blue and green Lie wealth and rags alike and all they mean Waiting eternity! Lord God! when man had made the biggest boat, The best and grandest boat, The fastest moving boat That e'er the world did see, A golden palace on the sea afloat, The thing on which his dearest pride did dote, All was but vanity! O Sea! O Sea! O Sea! Ah, raving hungry Sea! When wilt thy heartless greed be satisfied, Or wilt thy cruel craving be supplied With earth's humanity! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER THE TITANIC by DEREK MAHON THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC by THOMAS HARDY DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT THE TITANIC by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE TITANIC by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE RAGTIME! by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE TITANIC by HUDDIE LEDBETTER |
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