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Subject: SEA Matches Found: 2783 "HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 3", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "brothers mine, fling out your white banners over this red sea of wrath" Last Line: Press on - press on Subject(s): Freedom;israel;red Sea; Liberty "I'M GOING FOR A SOLDIER, JENNY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "jenny, look unto your own" Subject(s): Love;sea;soldiers; Ocean "OH, DON'T I LOVE MY BILLY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At cruel fate I am a railer Last Line: For the sake of billy Subject(s): Love;sailing & Sailors;sea; Ocean "THE CONSTITUTION'S LAST FIGHT [FEBRUARY 20, 1815]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A yankee ship and a yankee crew Last Line: "'old ironsides' means victory, / acrost the western ocean" Subject(s): Constitution (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812; Naval Warfare "THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain Last Line: O' respond both land and sea Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breasts of white camellias lead the way Last Line: "that soothe her with an echoed, ""innocent." Subject(s): Camellias; Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Ocean 11-FEB-83, by MAXINE RUTH SOLOW COMBS Poem Source First Line: Outside it's snowing hard enough to freeze a mammoth Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 2E2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY., by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Panel of gray silk. Liquefied ashes. Dingy percale tugged over Last Line: Well. I'd go home if I knew where to get off Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Sea; Travel 3, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Bats swallow my shadow Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea 534, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean 73 POEMS: 68, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is Last Line: Cries which are wings Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sea 95 POEMS: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maggie and milly and molly ad may Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean 95 POEMS: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maggie and milly and molly ad may Last Line: It's always ourselves we find in the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sea A BALLAD AT PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea to sea that clasps and fosters england, uttering evermore Last Line: Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea. Subject(s): England; Sea; English; Ocean A BALLAD OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face Last Line: And the other on to her grave. Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean A BALLAD SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High beyond the granite portal arched across Last Line: On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A BALLAD WITH A SERIOUS CONCLUSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowd about me, little children Last Line: "would have run the other way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Childhood; Ocean A CAPTAIN OF THE PRESS-GANG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmate, leave the ghostly shadows Last Line: Are the masters of the world. Subject(s): Press Gangs; Sea; Ocean A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A DARK NIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I long to pull the old man in Last Line: How dark it is; how far I am from shore. Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A DEAD SEA-GULL; NEAR LIVERPOOL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lack-lustre eye, and idle wing Last Line: Dying of soul decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sea Gulls A DIRGE FOR THE DEEP-SEA TRAWLER, by THOMAS EKENHEAD MAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the rolling humber Last Line: To the sullen humber's flow. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All afric, winged with death and fire Last Line: Life yearns for solace toward the sea. Subject(s): August; Sea; Wind; Ocean A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A DROP OF ANY SEA ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread Last Line: And gave himself till dark pools held him dead. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Sea; World; Ocean A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America A FLAKE OF FOAM, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In the seething foam I am tossed on the height of the waves Last Line: Oh! The turquoise sky that I love! Subject(s): Bubbles; Sea; Water; Ocean A FORSAKEN GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland Last Line: Death lies dead. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean A GLIMPSE OF OCEAN, by F. H. MCMAHON Poem Text First Line: Down from the crest of one great oak Last Line: Before he comes to die. Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean A GRAVE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Man looking into the sea Last Line: In which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Variant Title(s): A Graveyard Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sea; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean A GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beats the unrestful sea some ice-clad isle Last Line: The great voiced city's roar of fretful life. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean A GREEN WAVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the salt sea-send before Last Line: With plumes from the grey clouds that fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Wind; Ocean A GREYPORT LEGEND, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They ran through the streets of the seaport town Last Line: Drawing the soul to its anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of neptune's empire let us sing Last Line: The praise of neptune's empery. Variant Title(s): A Hymn In Praise Of Neptune Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Praise; Sea; Ocean A HYMN OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is mighty, but a mightier sways Last Line: The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A HYMN TO CHRIST, AT THE AUTHOR'S LAST GOING INTO GERMANY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In what torn ship soever I embark Last Line: An everlasting night. Subject(s): Sea Voyages A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weary day rins down and dies Last Line: The graves wherein we lie. Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A LADY PRAYETH THE RETURN OF HER LOVER ABIDING ON THE SEAS, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I thus ever long, and be no whit the near? Last Line: That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so! Variant Title(s): To Her Sea-faring Lover Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke. Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A LIFE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my ancient sea-blood say Last Line: The dim marge of god's outer sea. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean A LOST LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summer ago when he left me here Last Line: Good-by, my lover; good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Lost Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sea; Summer; Ocean A MAN'S LAST LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean A MARINER'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though now we are sluggish and lazy on the shore Last Line: In his cruise o'er the waters, the top of the wave. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by CHARLES OTIS JUDKINS Poem Text First Line: I come from the depths of the mountain Last Line: Of my mother, the sky-tinted ocean. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Last Line: Wind and sea. Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Storms; Wind; Ocean A NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A NORTHERN VIGIL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the gray north sea Last Line: Another dawn on the world! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A PASSER-BY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, o splendid ship, thy white sails crowding Last Line: In the offing scatterest foam, thy white sails crowding. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean A PASSSGE TO ITALY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The channel glitters underneath the moon! Last Line: As steadfast -- as thou -- art. . . . Subject(s): Sea Voyages A PICTURE, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long surges of the summer sea Last Line: Lulled in eternal sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A POEM OF THE SEA, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When others voice their passion for the sea Last Line: For I am dumb! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Outside my window howls the wind Last Line: May find his way to shore. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A PSALM OF THE WATERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This is a psalm of the waters Last Line: Cries, enter, and share with thy servant! Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Water; Ocean A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUESTION: AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dark the clouds that hide the sky from sight Last Line: And know ourselves the one thing not undone? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A REFLECTION AT SEA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how, beneath the moonbeam's smile Last Line: Thus melts into eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SABBATH MORNING AT SEA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship went on with solemn face Last Line: To the full godhead's burning. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sea; Sunday; Ocean A SAILOR CHANTEY (ON BARK 'PESTALLOZI' OFF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA ISLANDS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hearty husky lads were we, / able to cope with storm and sea Last Line: And here we are to sea once more! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails A SAILOR'S SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the breath of the briny deep Last Line: A slide o'er the side, and rest at last. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SAILOR'S YARN, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale that was told to me Last Line: As would go and lie to a poor marine. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SEA BALLAD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the sea, is that the sea? Last Line: "god without pity! O son, little son!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet Last Line: My mermaiden! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean A SEA CHILD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lover of child marjory Last Line: The strong white sun. Subject(s): Sea A SEA DIALOGUE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My antinetta, though thou be Last Line: That ever after firmer grows. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA DIALOGUE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much Last Line: Ay, ay, sir! Stiddy, sir! Sou'wes'b'sou'! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the slow tides go and come Last Line: Behind him save the song he sung. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA MAIDEN, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Face-down was I upon a sea Last Line: Which rippled me to sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wet sheet and a flowing sea Last Line: Our heritage the sea. Variant Title(s): At Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the days before the high tide Last Line: Sounds of many waters be?' Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A SEA SONG, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: Dizzy with hurrying to and fro Last Line: And the youth of my heart was the youth of the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Follow on the track of the west wind, seaward swinging Last Line: Oh! When the winds turn home again we'll come again to you. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolphins under and sea-gulls over Last Line: Back to the heart of the long denied! Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Singing & Singers; Ocean A SEA SONG (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor far nor near grew shrub nor tree Last Line: Until the world was left behind. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA SONG (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, make for me a little song Last Line: That soundless, sailless, solemn sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA STORY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. A while ago Last Line: This day upon the sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SEA-MARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rains have left the sea-blanks ill to climb Last Line: Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time. Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Time; Ocean A SEA-PRAYER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of wind and water Last Line: Sea-lord -- all are thine. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Ho! Last Line: Though I never sailed back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree Last Line: And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Supernatural; Ocean A SEASHORE IDYL, by ELLEN W. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Atlantic, by the sea we stand Last Line: Alluding to the wild—wild waves. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Waves; Ocean A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SIGH OF THE SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it?' once the ocean asked Last Line: "but god, whose own am I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SOLITUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand Last Line: Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER, 1852, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push hard across the sand Last Line: The kingdoms are less by three. Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Order: 1852 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Ocean A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A SONG OF THE ENGLISH, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is our lot - o goodly is our heritage! Last Line: As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the earth! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SONG ON THE SOUTH SEA, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ombre and basset laid aside, / new games employ the fair Last Line: A place in female souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal) A STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you ever told the legend old Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves." Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A SUB-MARINE CITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their golden summits in the noonday light Last Line: Accordant to the melancholy waves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean A THOUGHT OF HOME AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis lone on the waters Last Line: And words of farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting A THOUGHT OF THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My earliest memories to thy shores are bound Last Line: "to that sole changeless world, where ""there is no more sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air Last Line: Of an april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse Last Line: And a singe runs through lace and feather. Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare A VENETIAN SUNSET: BEFORE A CHANGE (RETURNING FROM TORCELLO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In violet hues each dome and spire Last Line: Fan-like, from venice to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Venice, Italy; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A VISION OF THE SEA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the terror of tempest. The rags of the sail Last Line: Whilst -- Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A VOYAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn till night one only change have we Last Line: We see a ship, and then we ship a sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean A VOYAGER'S DREAM OF LAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow dash of waves! The ceaseless roar! Last Line: The sea-bird's wail shall vex my soul no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Women A WILD NIGHT, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm is sweeping o'er the land Last Line: That struggle with the sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A WINTER SEA, by GRACE R. LLOYD Poem Text First Line: I love the sea, its mystery Last Line: On my snow-blocked new england farm. Subject(s): Sea; Winter; Ocean A WINTER SEA, by WALTER RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A breath / then a growl Last Line: Its death. Subject(s): Sea; Yale University; Ocean A WORD FOR THE NATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A word across the water Last Line: Kings, princes, and slaves. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Nations; Sea; Ocean A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean ABBOTT'S LAGOON, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm's still everywhere I run [or, step] Last Line: & trot into another morning's workout Subject(s): Lagoons; Sea; Storms; Water ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean ACROSS THE SEA, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk'd in the lonesome evening Last Line: As I look across the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean ACROSS THE SEA OF LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gazed into a maiden's eyes Last Line: Engulfed in glory light. Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ACT I, SCENE VI, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... As we paced along Subject(s): Sea ACT II, SCENE V, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea Subject(s): Sea AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou vast ocean! Ever-sounding sea! Last Line: Eternity -- eternity -- and power. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ADMIRABLE NEW NORTHERN STORY OF TWO CONSTANT LOVERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Two lovers in the north Subject(s): Sea ADMIRAL BENBOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we sail'd to virginia, and thence to fyal Subject(s): Admirals; Benbow, John (1653-1702); Sea ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As near porto bello lying Subject(s): Sea ADMIRAL RODNEY'S TRIUMPH ON THE 12TH OF APRIL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: True britons all of each degree Subject(s): Sea ADMIRALS ALL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Effingham, grenville, raleigh, drake Last Line: To nelson's peerless name! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea; English Navy; Ocean ADRIFT, by JAMES CHAPMAN WOODS Poem Source First Line: Beyond the harbour bar the sun goes down Subject(s): Sea ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny ADVENTURE AT MIDNIGHT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watching, on piers, exuberant travelers Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME, SELS., by JACK MITFORD Subject(s): Sea ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWMAN, SELS., by JACK MITFORD Subject(s): Sea ADVENTURES OF MR LEAR & THE POLLY (& THE) PUSSEYBITE ON THEIR WAY., by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr lear goes out a walking with a polly & the pusseybite Last Line: A deep hole & are never seen or distinguished or heard of never more %afterwards Subject(s): Boats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sea; Travel ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AEGEAN, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tang tang tang tang tang tang tang Last Line: Odor of sea shell Subject(s): Aegean Sea AEGEAN, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tang tang tang tang tang tang tang Last Line: Into emptiness %like and empty goat skull %odor of sea shell Subject(s): Aegean Sea AEGEAN, by DAGMAR NICK Poem Source First Line: In the marble light of the cyclades Last Line: Once more one last %painless flash Subject(s): Aegean Sea AEGEAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where only flowers fret Last Line: Of battles on the plain %and the bright oar and the oar spray Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Trojan War AEGEAN ISLANDS 1940-41, by BERNARD SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Where white, stares, smokes or breaks Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Islands AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not made for me Last Line: That were shaken for me and you? Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean AFTER 1918, by HARRISON HIRES Poem Text First Line: Into the gray mist I went dreaming Last Line: The world from passion and madness spent. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sky; Thought; Nightmares; Ocean; Thinking AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That night the loud voice of the sea was roaring Last Line: The muffled onset of embattled shades. Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean AFTER READING 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA', by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the hunt by holt and field Last Line: Than be alive to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Sea; Ocean AFTER SUNRISE HOW MANY THINGS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From the day of this day Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea AFTER THE GALE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not walked upon the shore Last Line: Dapple in france the fertile plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Variant Title(s): Upon The Shore Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AFTERNOON, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust of yesterday Last Line: And bitter, burning tears. Subject(s): Afternoon; Sea; Tears; Youth; Ocean AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies AGUE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is this surprising throng Last Line: And carry me, laid out, on the wind, %but where, where? Subject(s): Sea AH, MIGHTY BOISTEROUS BLOWN BREATH ... SIREN SONG FOR ME, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ALBION'S ENGLAND, SELS., by WILLIAM WARNER Subject(s): England; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Sea; Sleep ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned Last Line: And the little child go free! Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean ALL ABOARD FOR BOMBAY, by LEROY F. JACKSON Poem Source Last Line: On a floating cedar log! Subject(s): Sea Voyages ALL ART...', by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Routinely the sea %unbuckling, out Last Line: Let the limbs be cut back Variant Title(s): Interior: 'all Art... Subject(s): Sea ALL DAY LONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long in fog and wind Last Line: Against the palisades of adamant. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ALL HANDS UNMOOR!, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... A thundering sound Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping ALL ROUND THE SEA WET SHINING NETS WERE SPREAD, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ALL STILL, ALL SILENT, SAVE THE SOBBING RUSH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Sea ALL THE RUNNING WAVES OF EAGER LIFE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ALL'S WELL, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight bells! Eight bells! Their clear tone tells Last Line: "all's well! All's well!" Subject(s): Sea Voyages ALLEGORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that pass so swiftly o'er the downs Last Line: Must in the end be borne beyond the shore. Subject(s): Clouds; Fables; Fate; Sea; Allegories; Destiny; Ocean ALONE, by ELIZABETH FREAR Poem Text First Line: Over the trackless sea, from dawn to dawn Last Line: Fearlessly toward the sunset we shall sail away -- alone. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naked I stood on the soft shingle of sand Subject(s): Memory; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean ALONE FOR THE FIFTH DAY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at the ocean for a long time, the blue Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Ocean ALONG SHORE, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: What wondrous sermons these seas preach to men! Last Line: They rocked the infant time! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ALONG THIS FRONT, by JAMES HERBERT MORSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ALWAYS MISTAKEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: Of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Sea ALWAYS MISTAKEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: In heaven, a table set with bowls %of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Greece; Life; Sea; Self AMBASSADOR, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lived on an alley where every cat and dog Last Line: And the statues did not know me Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sea AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight. Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs AMERICAN CONSTITUTION FRIGATE'S ENGAGEMENT ... GUERRIERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come jolly lads, ye hearts of gold Last Line: Our barve commander now we'll toast, %in punch, and wine, and brandy Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 AMONG SHALLOWS, by LEONARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Blue as the glass once blown by lips at tyre Subject(s): Sea AMORES: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As is the sea marvelous Last Line: Of your %soul %upon %my lips Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sea AMORETTI: 34, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lyke as a ship, that through the ocean wyde Last Line: In secret sorrow and sad pensivenesse. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AMORIS EXSUL: 3. IN THE BAY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-gulls whiten and dip Last Line: And I would that my ship went down within sight of the shore! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN ALL NIGHT SEA FIGHT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, come list to me Last Line: After thecannonading had ceased and the fighting was o'er. Subject(s): British West Indies; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 2. TIDING, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the tides of april Last Line: And white, and fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Spring; Tides; Ocean AN ENGLISHMAN'S SEA-DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there are certain things - as a spider, a ghost" Last Line: We're returning from the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN OLD DREAM, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sang that song beside an olden sea Last Line: The rapture of sea-dreams and memories. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in? Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean AN OLD MAP, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: How small and arrogantly safe that world Last Line: Disclosed the continent of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Maps; Mediterranean Sea AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean ANCIENT TURTLE DANCE, by ALBERT CARL VERNON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Turtle, turtle, come up to breathe Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AND CONSTANT SHELLS THAT EVERMORE RETAIN, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AND GOD CREATED THE GREAT WHALES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Whales AND IN HASTE THE REFLUENT OCEAN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: And slides off toward the falt gray horizon, %not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Sea; Women AND SHINING WITH GLOOM, THE WATER GREY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AND SUDDENLY THERE SPRINGS, FR. ANCHORED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AND THE BLEAR-EYED FILMY SEA DID BOOM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Sea AND THE CREST / OF EVERY MOUNTING WAVE, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AND THE RAINBOW LIVES IN THE CURVE OF THE SAND, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING Poem Text First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ANGELICA SAVED BY RUGGIERO, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This girl I recognise her Last Line: Andromeda - this girl - I recognise her Subject(s): Freedom; Girls; Mermaids And Mermen; Paintings And Painters; Sea ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old neptune, the god of the ocean one day Last Line: The trident of neptune in future they'll wield, %and conquering ride on the blue wat'ry field Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; Saratoga (ship); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ANOTHER TO NEPTUNE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty neptune, may it please Last Line: Offer'd up, with thanks to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ANY OTHER TIME, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of us play our very best game Last Line: Any other time! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lies; Sea; Wine; Ocean APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean APIA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye isles samoan, fatal sisters three Last Line: Cease, o melpomene, thy tragic song! Subject(s): Samoa; Sea; Ocean AQUATIC NOCTURNE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in liquid / turquoise slivers Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ARAKOON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in storms, the triple-headed Last Line: Works against the tide in vain. Subject(s): New South Wales, Australia; Sea; Ocean ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In tidepools and hollows in mudstone rock Last Line: Life was already moving from them, into the salt air Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Harbors; Labor And Laborers; Marine Animals; Sea ARK, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At length a reverend sire among them came Subject(s): Arks; Sea ARK AND THE DOVE, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Source First Line: When the ark and the dove within ... Glassy wave Subject(s): Arks; Sea ARNOLD, MASTER OF THE SCUD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a schooner out from kingsport Subject(s): Fundy, Bay Of; Sea; Storms ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ... Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema AS 'MID THE TUNEFUL CHOIR TO KEEP, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AS HAPPY DWELLERS BY THE SEASIDE HEAR, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AS HIS WHO ON SOME MIDNIGHT HEARS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AS OCEAN MURMURS WHEN THE STORM IS PAST, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea AS OCEAN'S STREAM GIRDLES THE BALL OF EARTH, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And we sail onward, and our wake is fire Subject(s): Sea AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks AS THE PROUD HORSE WITH COSTLY GREY ..., FR. THE SHIPWRECK, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea AS WE WERE A-SAILING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Sea ASBURY PARK, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Between the jetty and the haze Last Line: We breathe, we drown, we scuttle on Subject(s): Drowning; Gulf Stream; Sea Voyages; Seashore ASCENSION, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Beads of sweat well up on the sea- Last Line: Seven men inhale the vision, their hearts %slackening with each breath Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AT A MONTH'S END, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night last night was strange and shaken Last Line: The wild-beast mark of panther's fangs. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH Poem Text First Line: Across the land their long lines pass Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT ETRETAT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean beats against the stern, dumn shore Last Line: Their past disasters in that utmost peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT LAND'S END, by ART GOODTIMES Poem Source First Line: Vertebrates %we balance the skullcase of ancient apes Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AT LES EBOULEMENTS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bay is set with ashy sails Last Line: "and leave the marshes to the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea; Bereavement; Ocean AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Last Line: Monody shall not wake the mariner. %this fabulous shadow only the sea keeps Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea AT MIDNIGHT OF ALL SOULS, by MARY COWDEN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: I hear the rushing of the sea of time Subject(s): Sea AT OUR GOLDEN GATE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At our gate he groaneth, groaneth Last Line: Else give back these seas again! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the investing darkness growls Last Line: Who never winks an eye and never stays to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown-faced sailor, tell me true Last Line: "and his love for us no sin can sunder." Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a brave man faces the foe Last Line: Butting its way through the night. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some things are undivined except by love Last Line: Nearest the dear one on a foreign shore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was off the cliffs of scituate Last Line: By that wild, treacherous shore. Subject(s): Scituate, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text 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 AT SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, we go down to sea in ships-- Last Line: And waft us home again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean AT SEA, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the tide is safe and high Subject(s): Sea AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Last Line: Farewell and adieu. Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty fills each bubble-dome Last Line: My bosom -- lord, abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean AT SEA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw large waves Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw large waves Last Line: But I, not they, %felt the pang of transience Subject(s): Sea AT SEA, SEPTEMBER 1833, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft as I paced the deck Last Line: Has the star-bearing squadron left leghorn?' Subject(s): Sea Voyages AT THE BEACH, by SANDRA OLSON LIATSOS Poem Source First Line: First I walked Subject(s): Sea AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean AT THE PLACE OF THE SEA, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Text First Line: Have you come to the red sea place in your life Last Line: In a place that his hand hath made. Subject(s): Red Sea; Religion; Theology AT THE SLACKENING OF THE TIDE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw a woman wrapped in rage Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Sea ATLANTIC COMBERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pure green waves! - with crests ... Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea ATLANTIS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the chill seas of yesterday Last Line: Why in the world were you ever begun? Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean AUN (24), by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whaling grounds of quintay, empty Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AUTONOMY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own! Last Line: Be thou the captain of thy soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Soul; Ocean AZURE ISLANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmen, sailing by night and day Last Line: One of thy murmuring fountains. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BABE BURIED AT SEA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deep sea took the dead. It was a babe Last Line: Never to fade, nor die. -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean BABY HARP SEAL, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When the baby seal looks up Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BABY WHALE IN CAPTIVITY, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: I miss the sea most of all Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BABYLONIAN SORROWS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm summon'd by death. I'd fain, my love Last Line: Ere I myself from this earth can pass. Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Grief; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BACKWARD YEARS, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: These are backward years Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BAD SNORKELER, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stands on the anemones as his fins Last Line: So far off nothing translates that he can understand Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Swimming BAHAMAS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea; Ocean BAHAMAS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we Last Line: Of the atlantic, and the blinding glitter %of the sea Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea BAINBRIDGE'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When our good constitution was last moor'd in port Last Line: So our cans we toss'd off with good liquor quite full, %to bainbridge, and jones, and decatur, and h Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BALLAD FOR CAPE HENRY DAY, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: From blackwall, hard by london town, on a bleak december Last Line: Adventurers, -- and comrades, across three hundred years! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages BALLAD IN PRAISE OF SEAFARING MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who seeks the way to win renown Subject(s): Sea BALLAD OF DANSEKAR THE DUTCHMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing we seamen now and then Subject(s): Sea BALLAD OF O'BRUADIR, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: When captain o'bruadir shook a sword Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Sea BALLAD OF PENTYRE TOWN, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foam flies white over rocks of black Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Sea BALLAD OF SEA FARDINGERS, DESCRIBING EVIL FORTUNE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What pen can well report the plight Subject(s): Sea BALLAD OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song the sea-wind sings Last Line: Her central fires make one vast flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BALLADE, by JUDITH MOFFETT Poem Source First Line: The reptile brain is cold and small Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BALLADE OF SEA-MUSIC, by MORTIMER WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Sink, sun, in crimson far away Subject(s): Sea BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO (1) (CHANTY)THE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the black ball line I served my time Subject(s): Sea BARACAROLLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay Last Line: Sink sail! For such a dream as love is lost before the waking. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BARCAROLE: DE VIGNY, by E. G. B. Poem Text First Line: Come with me, lady fair Last Line: "here art thou free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Landfall; Sea; Liberty; Ocean BARE, AS A WILD WAVE IN THE WILD NORTH SEA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea BARNEY'S INVITATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye lads who know no fear Last Line: Success to the hyder ali. Subject(s): American Revolution; Barney, Joshua (1759-1818); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare BATHING SNATCH, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sun, lay down thy golden bridge Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Sea BATTLE BETWEEN THE CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas in the morning, the fifth day of june Last Line: If wounded - 'tis our country's intention, %for all that's d isabl'd to give a good pension Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BATTLE OF THE BALTIC, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of nelson and the north / sing the glorious day's reknown Last Line: Of the brave! Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Copenhagen Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare BATTLE OF THE POTOMAC WITH THE MALAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the sun was retiring behind the high mountains Last Line: May the potomac, with glory and honour come home, %and her name ne'er be stained with an unworthy de Subject(s): Navy - United States; Potomac (ship); Sea Battles BATTLE OF THE SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE; A BRITISH BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On board the shannon frigate in the merry month of may Last Line: Likewise to gallant captain broke and all his valiant crew, %who beat the bold americans and brought Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Shannon (ship); War Of 1812 BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arise, ye sons of britain, in chorus join and sing Subject(s): Sea BEATIFIC SEA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old ocean was Subject(s): Sea BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL THE MOTHER LAY, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea BECKY AND BENNY IN FAR ROCKAWAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the atlantic ocean, past the last subway station Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BECKY AND BENNY IN FAR ROCKAWAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the atlantic ocean, past the last subway station Last Line: You should eat and be healthy, they said Subject(s): Sea BEFORE DAWN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breath of the dawn, breath of the dawn Last Line: Purify me. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Soul; Sunrise; Ocean BENJAMIN'S LAMENTATIONS FOR THEIR SAD LOSS AT SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Captain chilver's gone to sea Subject(s): Sea BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BESIDE THE SEA, by RUTH L. DROWNS Poem Text First Line: Down by the seaside let me stay Last Line: For brief digression. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BESIDE THE SEA, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Some reefs bear precious names Last Line: When suddenly a girl cries out %leave me to my sorrows Subject(s): Sea BESIDE THE SEASIDE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green shutters, shut your shutters! Windyridge Subject(s): Sea BEYOND (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river to the sea Last Line: She does not understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BIG SEA, by JAMES BLAND Poem Source First Line: When your dream ship set out for sea Last Line: Were you a minion of the lunatic moon? %or langston, sing me a melancholic tune Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Sea BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england. Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean BIRTH OF VENUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ocean stood like crystal. The soft air Subject(s): Sea BIRTH OF VENUS, SELS., by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of the warm, surf-laden sea Subject(s): Sea BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO: PREFACE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt Last Line: Was as light kindling all a windy sea. Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Morning; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean BITTER LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O you dr. Ycas you! Last Line: One aeon, no one wept Subject(s): Sea BLACK SAILOR'S CHANTY, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yo ho, ma hahties, da's a hurricane a-brewin' Subject(s): Sea BLACK-EYED SUSAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the downs the fleet was moored Last Line: "adieu!"" she cried; and waved her lily hand." Variant Title(s): Sweet William's Farewell To Black-eyed Susan Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Ocean BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLESSING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Beyond the swimmers, the dolphin rises into light Last Line: Amid seawords seasilences seascreams seasongs. Subject(s): Blessings; Dolphins; Hope; Sea BLOW, BULLIES, BLOW (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a black ball barque coming down the river Subject(s): Sea BLUE WATER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BOAT, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: He built it sure that it was huge in a clearing of %the pines Last Line: With an ordinary foolishness Subject(s): Boats; Harbors; Sea BOAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: At 8:35 in the evening he drops the anchor Last Line: He stands looking at what has happened Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms BOAT, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Let me stay %this night far out Last Line: Not knowing %where it will land Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Fog; Boats; Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Haze; Ocean BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Ocean BOB SAWYER (1758), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye jolly sailors, with courage stout and bold Subject(s): Sea BOLD PRIVATEER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O, fare you well, my polly dear, since you and I must part Subject(s): Sea BON VOYAGE, by VICTOR NOEL Poem Source First Line: What a strange season it is Last Line: Under this face of somber mood? Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages BON VOYAGE!, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue Last Line: And tempt the nautilus his cruise to dare! Subject(s): Sea Voyages BON VOYAGE!, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastern lands, far-famed in song and / story Last Line: And bring you home—the pilgrim journey through. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind BONES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sling me under the sea Last Line: Sling me . . . Under the sea. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BOSTON FRIGATE'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FRENCH CORVETTE ..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The american frigate, from boston she came Last Line: Here's a health to captain little, and officers too, %not forgetting the seamen that were valiant an Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles BRAEMAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night from the stern I thought, as I watched Last Line: Pale bodies the sea's farness from their shore Subject(s): Sea; Night; Ocean; Bedtime BRANCH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A branch of acacia, of mimosa Last Line: Of a yellow branch Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea BRAND FIRE NEW WHALING SONG ... FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pull, men, for lo, see there they blow! Subject(s): Sea BRAVE NEWS FROM ADMIRAL VERNON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, loyal britons all, rejoice, with joyful acclamation Subject(s): Sea BRAVE TARS OF OLD ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Long time of the sea had old england been queen Subject(s): Sea BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea! Last Line: Will never come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea; Ocean BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Last Line: Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea BREAKERS, by E. H. BRODIE Poem Source First Line: Piling its dragon coils into a heap Subject(s): Sea BREAKING BILLOWS AT SORRENTO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of whirling flakes of foam Last Line: In thunder the sea's boundless might. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Sea; Sky; Ocean BRIDES, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: They must vanish of course Last Line: Over their delicate motions. Subject(s): Brides; Sea; Youth BRILLIANT VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark how the church bell's thundering harmony Last Line: Our wasp has stung the frolic hard, %and thus our laurels grow Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BRILLIANT VICTORY; ON CAPTURE OF BRITISH SCHOONER DOMINICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come my jovial sons of america Last Line: Who daring fought the british schooner, %and as bravely overthrew Subject(s): Decatur (ship); Navy - United States; Privateers; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BURDENED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! There is no sadder fate in life Last Line: You are but a weak woman at the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Women; Destiny; Ocean BURIAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is a body that should die at sea! Last Line: Not wait till I've been dead for a year! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BURIAL AT SEA, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: In all the wide unrest that is the sea Last Line: Behind the soundless dark of final bars. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Burials; Ocean BURIAL AT SEA, by MIKE CLUFF Poem Source First Line: Along the jersey shore Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea BURIAL AT SEA, by JOHN COMPANIOTTE Poem Source First Line: There will I lie Last Line: My soul in water where first %life and memory began Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea BURIAL AT SEA, by PAMELA GROSS Poem Source First Line: There were just two of them Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea BURLESQUE SONNET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, mackintosh, artificer of light Last Line: Of light, and light's purveyance, hail, the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BURNING DRIFT-WOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my drift-wood fire I sit Last Line: Its mirage-lifted isles of peace. Subject(s): Driftwood; Sea; Ocean BUT THOU ARE TERRIBLE, WITH THE UNREVEALED, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea BUT WHEN A SUNNY SEVENNIGHT HAD PASSED, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung Last Line: Between the silence and the wind. Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean BY MORNING TWILIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, like a dying mother Last Line: With the song of the sea to the land. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean BY THE AEGEAN SEA, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: A fishing boat, delayed, heads in towards the harbour Last Line: In the seaside wood calmly grazes the green light Subject(s): Sea BY THE AUTUMN SEA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair as the dawn of the fairest day Last Line: And the night shades close on the autumn sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE LONE SEA SHORE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath Last Line: My song to the sea. Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BY THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "slowly, steadily, under the moon" Last Line: Forever and ever his will be done Subject(s): Sea;waves; Ocean BY THE SEA, by ELSIE COOPER Poem Source First Line: On either hand %a sweep of tawny sand Subject(s): Sea BY THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I started early, took my dog Last Line: At me, the sea withdrew. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with her I love by the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Sea BY THE SEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caves of the sea have been troubled to-day Last Line: Ah, never and never come home! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little country churchyard Last Line: For aught but the needs of the day. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the sea moan evermore? Last Line: Without a pang, and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a hand on my window tapped Last Line: And the moan of the rising sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Sea; Supernatural; Nightmares; Ocean BY THE SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside an ebbing northern sea Last Line: In one low, broken cry? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SEA, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The burning golden rose of the day Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Sea BY THE SEASIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest Last Line: "with a full heart; ""our thoughts are 'heard' in heaven." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CALL HIM HIGH SHELLEY NOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a frigid man whom men deplore Last Line: Call him high shelley now and praise his wake. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean CALM, by JOHN R. CHIESA Poem Source First Line: Unblown, calm, and silent sea Subject(s): Calm; Sea CALM, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: So tame, so lanquid looks this drowsing sea Subject(s): Calm; Sea CALM AND UNRUFFLED IS THE BAY, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea CALM AT SEA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is clear Last Line: To light the temple of devotion. Subject(s): Calm; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean CALM MORNING AT SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midocean like a pale blue morning-glory Last Line: Fleckless on every side Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea CALM SEA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright shine the golden summits in the light Subject(s): Sea CAMEO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long shall he live thro' time remembered Last Line: With thrust of tail and fin. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CANTERBURY TALES, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Sea CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean CAP'N', by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: Far from the sea in his grey later days Subject(s): Sea CAPE COD MEMORY, by A. PEARLE CARTER Poem Text First Line: These I shall weave into my tapestries Last Line: Through the gray silence, a low-whispered word. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Ocean CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king Last Line: It took him unawares! Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CAPTAIN BOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where have you been, my canny honey? Subject(s): Sea CAPTAIN GLEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a ship, and a ship of fame Subject(s): Sea CAPTAIN HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye brave seamen all, where'er you be Last Line: Like true americans our rights will defend, %and to our government we'll all eb a friend Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CAPTAIN JONES' INVITATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who on some dark mountain's brow Last Line: Learn what it is to go to sea. Subject(s): American Revolution; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Sea; Ocean CAPTAIN KIDD, by T. B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: A buccaneer, a bad man Last Line: "I'd knife ye!"" and I would." Subject(s): Boats; Racism; Sea; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Ocean CAPTAIN OF ST. KITTS, by BEULAH MAY Poem Source First Line: Once a rover of the sea, captain ... Barkentine Subject(s): Sea CARETTA CARETTA, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: The loggerhead turtle Last Line: In a far corner of cassiopeia Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters CARGOES, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean CARIBBEAN, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Montego bay/in its quick curve Subject(s): Caribbean Sea CARIBBEAN NOON, by MUNA LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bellflower sky is hung Last Line: Vast sea petals that underlie %vaster petals of widening sky Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Caribbean Sea CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues CASABIANCA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the burning deck Last Line: Was that young, faithful heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea Battles; Tragedy; Naval Warfare CASH IN HAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye jolly seamen bold Last Line: The british boys, we always knew, %at jingling cash are handy Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CASTABELLA GOING TO SEA; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! Methinks I hear the seamen call Last Line: Whose eyes and voice the winds and seas obey. Subject(s): Sea Voyages CASTLES OF THE SEA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Summer's breath is on the ocean, fragrant from far / southern lands Last Line: And our lives are spent in loving there among the isles of god. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CAT AND THE SEA, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a matter of a black cat Last Line: With the cold interiors %of the sea's mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea CATAPULTING A STONE, by SHIN SOKCH'O Poem Source First Line: Onto the ocean Last Line: The infinite waves alone %roll for endless miles Subject(s): Sea CATHEDRALS BY THE SEA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For aeons had the self-responsive tide Last Line: The sullen diapason of the sea. Subject(s): Churches; Sea CATULLUS, 101, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By strangers' coasts and waters, many days at sea Last Line: Into eternity my hail and my farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sea CAUGHT IN THE EBBING TIDE, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mightiest titan's stroke could not withstand Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Sea CAUGHT IN THE NETS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Would I were back, now, in my own sea-caves Subject(s): Sea CAWSAND BAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In cawsland bay lying, with the blue peter flying Subject(s): Sea CEMETERY NEAR THE SEA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no luck Subject(s): Sea; Graves; Ocean; Tombs; Tombstones CERVERA, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Hail to thee, gallant foe! Last Line: Honor above them. Subject(s): Admirals; Cervera, Pasquale De (1839-1909); Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare CETUS, A LETTER FROM JONAH, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The whales are singing Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CHAMELEON, by GORDON LECLAIRE Poem Source First Line: Who loves the sea has found its waters blue Subject(s): Sea CHANGED VOICES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the sea-wind was to me Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea CHANTIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Sea CHARMS OF NIAN-NU, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eastward goes the great river Last Line: And I pour my winecup as offering %in the river's moonbeams Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Sea Battles CHART, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not you whose throat no more Last Line: To water and stone. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbians here behold the list Last Line: Receive thy grateful sacrifice, %of holy freedom's choicest tear Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPT. LAWRENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbia mourns in silent woe Last Line: Vain though 'tis die, the sacred tear, %for lawrence is in heaven the same Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHILD, by ANDREA POTOS Poem Source First Line: We first spotted hr Last Line: Cupped it to our ears and heard %the will of the ocean Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sea CHILD ELSIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For love of the sea, child elsie Last Line: Afar from the fishing town. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHILD OF A NEW TIDE, by EDGAR CAIRO Poem Source First Line: What are rivers without shores, shores Last Line: Of tidings, life and love rises to the flood Subject(s): Love; Sea CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (COMPLETE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been straying Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage; Death; Homosexuality; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Poetry And Poets; Sea; Travel CHILDHOOD, by E. H. BRODIE Poem Source First Line: There comes to me a vision of the day Subject(s): Sea CHILDREN IN FOG, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source First Line: Ebbtide: a thin fog sails in from the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CHILDREN OF BARCELONA, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Clouds moving in, the sun still warm and mild behind the air Last Line: Gold eyes of atlantic waters, a path beyond the longing flesh, %beyond the sweet fragrance of summer Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Sea; Water CHIMERA, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the verge of the sea a man finds a gelatinous creature, Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHOICE, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: I have known one bound to a bed by wrist and ankle Last Line: And what shall I choose, if I am free to choose? Subject(s): Death; Navy - Great Britain; Sea CHRIST OF SAINT LAURENT!, by EDITH BEATRICE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Still towers the cross upon the lone hillside Last Line: Blessing, with outstretched hands, the river's flow. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHRISTMAS AT SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand Last Line: Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christmas; Sea; Travel; Nativity, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips CHRISTMAS DAWN AT SEA, by EVAN MORGAN Poem Source First Line: The tireless flight of a pursuing gull Subject(s): Sea CIRCE, DID YOU?, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of Last Line: Circe, blown away Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ulysses CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A young amazon Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows. Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America CITY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suburbs of the city with rotten teeth Last Line: Human houses, flowers in the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea CITY AND THE ISLAND: 5. TRAVELLING AMONG ISLANDS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, alone but not without resources Last Line: Circe, penelope, nausicaa, calypso Subject(s): Sea CLANCY'S SONG, by JAMES BRENDAN CONNOLLY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I love old ocean's smile Last Line: My prayer's for death by drowning. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLASSROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seas of tranquility they sort of nod Last Line: Not even on postcards Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLASSROOM ON THE BLACK SEA, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Grass grows from the dark bottle of our dreams Last Line: And called it the music of our childhood Subject(s): Black Sea; Nature; Schools CLEANING SHIP, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down on your knees, boys, holystone the decks Subject(s): Sea CLIPPER, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her sails are strong and yellow as the sand Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping CLIPPER SHIPS, by JOHN ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: O clipper ships! Where are, where are ye now? Subject(s): Sea CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean CLOUD SEAS, by OLIVE C. LEARY Poem Text First Line: The sky's a tossing, wind-swept sea Last Line: And joy knows depths unseen. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLOUD SONG, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silken sails in silver galleons Last Line: From your merchandise of dreams! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen CLOUDS, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: When I have lain an hour watching the skies Subject(s): Sea CLOUDS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clouds, ye are ships in the infinite blue Last Line: Where you float. Subject(s): Harbors; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean COARSE MORNING, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the yellow boisterous sea Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Sea COASTS OF HIGH BARBARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee Last Line: A-sailing down all on the coasts of high barbary Subject(s): Sea COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GREAT WHITE FATHER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Engineers %found the great white father dying Last Line: Bloated with ears and testicles %and human hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Salmon; Sea Voyages COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE SALMON FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At celilo falls the columbia Last Line: Singing quietly to the salmon Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Rivers; Salmon; Sea Voyages COLUMBUS, by PERCY ADAMS HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: Wild and plunging seas have smote our sides Subject(s): Sea COLUMBUS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind him lay the gray [or, great] azores Last Line: "its grandest lesson: ""on! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Port Of Ships;a Tribute To Columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Patriotism; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COME ROLL HIM OVER (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oho, why don't you blow? Subject(s): Sea COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean COMFORTABLE SONG ON THE POOR SAILORS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How little do the landmen know Subject(s): Sea COMING OF LOVE, SELS., by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Sea COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sailors there are of gentlest breed Last Line: Glides white through the phosphorus sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our commodore's return'd again Last Line: And all columbia's sailors, %they are her nation's pride Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more. Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean COMPENSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all / there are moments Last Line: The sea! The sea! The sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Sea; Wine; Ocean COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean COMRADES, by HENRY R. DORR Poem Text First Line: Now from their slumber waking Last Line: To the beat of the muffled drum! Subject(s): Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god. Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean CONSIDER THE WHALES (AN ACROSTIC), by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Let's consider seven whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CONSTANCY, FR. SERAGLIO, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear Last Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear,' etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery; Ocean CONSTANT VOICE, by JOHN KOETHE Poem Source First Line: Above a coast that lies between two coasts Last Line: But isolated houses nestled in the hills Subject(s): Sea; Seashore CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean CORRODED AND GREENISH HULL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drowsy flight moves far, and fades in sun haze Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sea; Sleep CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves. Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea COURT OF NEPTUNE, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O muse! By thee conducted down, I dare Subject(s): Sea CRAQUEODOOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon Last Line: With a long piece of crape to her tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Spirk Troll-derisive Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Last Line: This dead street never stops Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE BAR', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the moaning bar Last Line: Returning safe from sea Subject(s): Sea; Danger; Survival CYMBELINE, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean D'AVALOS' PRAYER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the last sea is sailed, when the last shallow charted, Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Faith; Sea DAEMON LOVER (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O where have ye been, my dearest dear Subject(s): Sea DAEMON LOVER (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O where have ye been, my dearest love Subject(s): Sea DANGER OF DIGGING FOR CLAMS, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: It is a trick the bay emptied of Last Line: Been planted there. His face, like a flower, turned %to the sun Subject(s): Clams; Sea DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DAUBER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea DAWN, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn I went down among the machines Last Line: And as we swung toward santos our wake described a big arc glistening %on the unmoving sea Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Dawn; Sea Voyages DAWNLIGHT ON THE SEA, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking Last Line: When we two walk together in the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean DAY OF SEA, by SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN Poem Source First Line: Day of sea in the sky, made Last Line: Where my gestures are seagulls who lose themselves %spiralling over the clouds, over the spume Subject(s): Sea DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEAR SAVIOUR PILOT ME, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: As sails my fragile bark Last Line: When dawns the light of day! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DEATH, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: And must I leave this world of music Last Line: O christ eb near, o christ, and pity me Subject(s): Boats; Death; Sea Voyages DEATH OF KINGS, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Giant; %sleek master of the oceans Last Line: And we shall have one more kingdom %empty of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: SHEAF, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON Poem Source First Line: The papyrus root Last Line: Seawrack on a weak and brackish wave Subject(s): Nature; Plants; Sea DEATH OF THE OLD SEA KING, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a fearful night - the tempest raved Last Line: And calmly talked with death. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH OF THE PILOT WHALES, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every few years, down at the florida keys Last Line: We wish not to think, we tow them bakc to sea, %cut them open and they sink Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow leaves her nest Last Line: In the grave. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er Last Line: Our sails swell full! To sea! To sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DEATH-GRAPPLE, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Man and the pitiless waters Last Line: How long shall the carnage be? Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean DECATUR'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye heroes who bled for the rights of mankind Last Line: For columbia still generous and brave, just and free, %ere long of the ocean the mistress shall be Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 DECEMBER 22ND, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea %is right up against the skin of the shore with a tide Last Line: Come so far Subject(s): Sea DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many, the changes more Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEEP MID-OCEAN WATERS PERPETUALLY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sea DEEP SEA CALM, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: With what deep calm, and passionlessly great Subject(s): Sea DEEP-MOUTH'D SEA, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea DEEPER SEAS (1), by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For now are wider ways, profounder tides Subject(s): Sea DEFEAT AND VICTORY, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the clangor of cannon Last Line: Don't give up the ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Sea Battles; War Of 1812; Naval Warfare DEPORTED, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The transports move stealthily to sea Last Line: Oh, do not notice! Subject(s): Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEPRECATING PARROTS, by BEULAH MAY Poem Source First Line: Shu-lin was a parrot who sat on the shoulder Subject(s): Parrots; Sea DESTROYERS IN THE ARCTIC, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Camouflaged, they detach lengths of sea and sky Last Line: But cannot dream long; the sea curdles and sprawls %liverishly real, and merciless all else away fro Subject(s): Sea Battles; Troy; World War Ii DESTRUCTION OF TROY, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clear was the course of the cold floods Subject(s): Sea; Troy DHOWS, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: South of guardafui was a dark tide flowing Subject(s): Sea DIALOGUE, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My merry mates! To neptune's praise Subject(s): Sea DIFFERING VIEWS OF A DEAD WHALE, by VIRGINIA LINTON Poem Source First Line: Looming monstrous, he shone a hide weathered Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DIGNITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks jut out of the sea Last Line: They lacked before. Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Ocean; Granite; Rocks DIM STAR OF THE OCEAN LIETH COOL, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea DIMANCHE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sabbath-day! Of all the seven the best! Last Line: Thine own right arm, omnipotent to save! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean DINNER BY THE AEGEAN, by BOB COOK Poem Source First Line: Achilles with one leg and monk's attire Last Line: I can see cities and wooden horses burning %in her voluptuous shadow Subject(s): Achilles; Aegean Sea; Dinners And Dining; Mythology - Classical DIRECTION, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: This is a harbor where no boatman's cry Last Line: Upon some object not yet wholly known. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean DIRGE AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! We give thee to the wave Last Line: Sleep! Oh, sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text 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 DISAPPOINTMENT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! Joy! My lover's bark returns Last Line: She reels -- she -- sinks -- o heaven! She's gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Disappointment; Love; Sea; Ocean DISCOURAGED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the little babbling streamlet Last Line: Blue and infinite, the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Rivers; Sea; Ocean DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't. Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DISTANT SOUND OF THE SEA AT EVENING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale Last Line: Who girds tired nature with unslumbering might. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean DISTRESSED SAILOR'S GARLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When first I drew the breath of life Subject(s): Sea DISTURBANCE, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: The ray noses in the weed flats Last Line: From under a storm. Stingray Subject(s): Sea DIVER, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sank through easeful Last Line: Somehow began the %measured rise Subject(s): Scuba Diving; Sea; Sports DIVER, by THEOBALD PURCELL-BURET Poem Source First Line: Poised for the leap, clear in the morning light Subject(s): Sea DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First having read the book of myths Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving & Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First having read the book of myths Last Line: Our names do not appear Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving And Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks DOES NO ONE AT ALL EVER FEEL THIS WAY IN THE LEAST?, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ocean sea for all your being vast Last Line: And telling them how sinbad was a sailor Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DOES NO ONE AT ALL EVER FEEL THIS WAY IN THE LEAST?, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O ocean sea for all your being vast Last Line: Of what it is by calling in a pool %and telling them how sinbad was a sailor Subject(s): Sea DOLOR OOGO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirteen men by ruan shore Last Line: Wipes her hands incessantly. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DOLPHIN WAY, by JR. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MCGIRT Poem Source First Line: In another age between time of trees Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHIN: MONOLOGUE & SONG, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I approached you Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed Last Line: Boy drowned at sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness DOLPHINS, by HAMISH MACLAREN Poem Source First Line: As threads spilling dew-drops Subject(s): Dolphins; Sea DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all. Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean DOOM OF KING ACRISIUS, SELS., by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now underneath the scarped cliffs of bay Subject(s): Sea DOVE STA AMORE (TO LAWRENCE, UNSENT), by MAR MONTAS Poem Source First Line: L I ke an Last Line: Eve ry where Subject(s): Love; Sea DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN AMONG THE WHARVES, by ELEANORE MYERS JEWETT Poem Source Subject(s): Sea DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 1. SUNRISE IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sol, sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone Last Line: Once more behold! The sun! Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Nature DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the land of the dark-eyed gente Last Line: Smoke — smoke — smoke. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Health; Pleasure; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of tropic sensations, the worst Last Line: Teestay, teestay. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Drinks & Drinking; Pleasure; Wine DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 5. THE DANCING GIRL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what it is to dance? Last Line: As here by the carib they're known. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Dancing & Dancers DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silver flash from the sinking sun Last Line: Queen night, on velvet slippered feet, comes softly down. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime DRAMA IN THE PORT, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Slosh of ocean Last Line: Beyond the harbor the seagulls rest Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Thunder; Waves DREAM OF BURIAL IN MID-OCEAN, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the deep deep grey-green seas Subject(s): Sea DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Text First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still! Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY Poem Text First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly Last Line: Waves of sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are few probabilities through Last Line: That it jogs Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries DREAMER, SAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer, say, will you dream for me Last Line: Breaks the sleep of the silence there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean DREAMLAND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up anchor! Up anchor! / set sail and away! Last Line: Are thine for a day. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean DREAMS OF FERDINAND: 3. PRAYER, by EDWIN GALLAHER Poem Source First Line: Sea, take me with open arms Last Line: Island. Sing of me no more Subject(s): Sea DREAMS OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I know not why I yearn for thee again Last Line: Thy salt is lodged for ever in my blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest Last Line: Not one not beautiful Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest Last Line: And weather, under our eyes or fingers %not one not beautiful Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea DROWNED, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They still vibrate with the sound Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Drowning; Sea DRY TORTUGAS, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged turtle allowed himself Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DURER WENT TO SKETCH THE WHALE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Even though he could do marvelous rabbits Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Environment; Sea Monsters DUSK AT SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends Last Line: Both light and guide on the long journey home. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Ocean EACH WAVE CAME ON A GLITTERING RIPPLED HILL, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea EARTH AND SEA, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Children screaming in the playful sea Last Line: Old man in the earth, watch over me. Subject(s): Children; Sea; Watchmen EARTH AND SKY AND OCEAN HELD THEIR BREATH, by JOSEPH NOEL PATON Poem Source Subject(s): Sea EARTH VIEWED FROM THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Arriving from the horizon, our ship Last Line: Shown only by our signal lights Subject(s): Earth; Sailors And Sailing; Sea EAST ANGLIAN SEAS AND SHORES, SELS., by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Sea EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EBB TIDE AT NOON, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezes sleep; their morning jounrey done Last Line: And all the waters waken into motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 30. FORMS OF PRAYER AT SEA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To kneeling worshippers no earthly floor Last Line: Will listen, and ye know that he is just. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Worship; Ocean ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 9. WILLIAM THE THIRD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm as an under-current, strong to draw Last Line: Shrinks from the verdict of his stedfast eye. Subject(s): Sea; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Ocean ECHO OF THE WHOLE SEA'S SPEECH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea ECHOES: 32, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay, Last Line: They're all growing green in the old countrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Falmouth;home Subject(s): Falmouth, England; Home; Sea; Ocean ECOLOGY, by DALLAS EUGENE WIEBE Poem Source First Line: Sea otters backstroke away Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters EDGE OF THE WORLD, by MARY FANNY YOUNGS Poem Source First Line: From the top of the bluff, where the wind blows free Last Line: Some day - some day - I must cross that rim! Subject(s): Sea Voyages EDITHA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathing the violet-scented gale Last Line: Of mingled reverence and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Sea Battles; Widows & Widowers; Naval Warfare EDVARD GRIEG, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light across the fjord is very cool Last Line: The very scene I look on here tonight. Subject(s): Light; Love; Norway; Sea; Summer; Ocean EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight oars compel Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!" Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports ELEANORE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes open'd not Last Line: So dying ever, eleanore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ELEGIAC SONNET: 83. THE SEA VIEW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The upland shepherd, as reclined he lies Last Line: Ah! Thus man spoils heaven's glorious works with blood! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sea Battles; Naval Warfare ELEGY FOR 41 WHALES BEACHED IN FLORENCE, OREGON, JUNE 1979, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: In the warm rods of your ears Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters EMBARQUEMENT, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You must walk over the mud Last Line: Great swelling of water will carry you Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel ENCOUNTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At two thousand feet the sea wrinkles like an old man's hand Last Line: The night stirred angrily like an old suspicion Subject(s): Fog; Giants; Sea; Water; Haze; Ocean END OF THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE, SELS., by GERVASE MARKHAM Poem Source First Line: But when the morning's dewy locks drunk up Subject(s): Sea ENDANGERED SPECIES, SELS., by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: If it were only a question of whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ENDURING MUSIC, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This shell, this slender spiral in the hand Subject(s): Sea; Shells ENGLAND: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; Justice; Sea; English; Ocean ENGLISH CAPTAINS, by CHARLES FITZ-GEFFREY Poem Source First Line: Courageous cabot, brave venetian hero Subject(s): Sea ENOUGH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long we'd sought for avalon Last Line: The oars—yea, and yearned. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Avalon (legend); Sea; Ocean ENTERPRISE AND BOXER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "again columbia's stripes, unfurl'd" Last Line: "and more, much more can be obtain'd / upon the same condition" Subject(s): Boxer (ship);enterprise (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812; Naval Warfare EPIGRAM UPON HIS MAJESTIE'S GREAT SHIP ..., by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What artist took in hand this ship to frame? Subject(s): Sea EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPISODE 43: BY THE SEA, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: All afternoon the sun slicks Last Line: More terrible than moonshine Subject(s): Relationships; Sea EPISTLE TO A DESPONDING SEA-MAN, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your men of the land, from the king to jack ketch Subject(s): Sea EPITAPH, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: One whom I knew, a student and a poet, Subject(s): Sea EPITAPH ACROSTICK ON ROBERT BLAKE, by GEORGE HARRISON Poem Source First Line: R est here in peace the sacred dust Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Epitaphs; Sea EPITAPH OF DRAKE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: England his heart; his corpse the waters have Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Sea EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dash of yellow sand Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean EROSION, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What the sea does - coming, going - is the mole beneath the seeming solid earth Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ESCAPADE, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For demerara bound with cod she flies Subject(s): Sea ESKMEALS, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, joy, where sea and river waters meet Subject(s): Sea ESSAY ON STONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April abomination, that's what I call Subject(s): April; North Sea ESSAY: THE COMPLETE SENTENCE OF THE LIMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was bathing as an individual in something more general Last Line: I will have to sleep a long time to find them again Subject(s): Essays; Maritime Law; Navigation; Sea Law EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EVEN AS HIS WHO ON SOME MIDNIGHT HEARS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea EVENING AT SEA, by JOHN PRESS Poem Source First Line: The sky turned smoky blue, the enfeebled sun Subject(s): Sea EVENING BY THE SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was between the night and day Last Line: Low places where the rock-fish feed. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EVENING EBB, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while, five night-herons Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EVENING EBB, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while, five night-herons Last Line: The screen of the world for another audience Subject(s): Sea EVENING IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR, by EPES SARGENT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The very pulse of ocean now was still Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea EVENING ON THE BROADS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over two shadowless waters, adrift as a pinnace in peril Last Line: Ghost or god, evermore moves on the face of the deep. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean EVERY LONG & WIDE EXPANSE OF SEA, by MAURICE SCEVE Poem Source Last Line: Setting full sail, beyond all heaven & all hell Subject(s): Sea EVERYBODY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I, perhaps I never will be, perhaps I was not able Last Line: That I was exactly like you %and like everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea EVERYBODY WAS ASKING ME WHEN I LEAVE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I am and I am here Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean EXILED, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Searching my heart for its true sorrow Last Line: I have a need of water near. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FAINT YET PURSUING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this shadow and this turbulent sea Last Line: My heart fails, yet I follow on to know Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea; Persistence; Conduct Of Life FAIR MAID'S CHOICE OR THE SEAMAN'S RENOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Being a pleasant song made of a sailor Subject(s): Sea FAIRE SHEWES DECEIVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smooth was the sea, and seem'd to call Last Line: Who, kissing, kill such saints as these? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FAITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was breaking at my feet Last Line: "there is! There is!"" replied." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Sea; Belief; Creed; Theology; Ocean FANTASIA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am a sea-flower Last Line: And let the good ship go. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean FAR AND WIDE SHE WENT, by CAEDMON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FAR BENEATH / SLEEPETH THE GLASSY OCEAN LIKE A SHEET, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea FAR OFF, THE SILENT SEA GLOOMED COLD AND GRAY, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FAR OFF-SHORE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the raft, a signal flying Last Line: Sweeps anew! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FAR OUT AT SEA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Last Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean FAREWELL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, and when forth Last Line: Sail, a hopeless sailor? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean FAREWELL HYMN; DEDICATED TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF MERRIMAC, by PHINEAS STOWE Poem Source First Line: Saviour o'er the restless ocean Last Line: But we'll hope to dwell together, %on that calm and heavenly shore Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship) FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains! Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States FEEBLE, SHADOWY, SHALLOW?, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean FIGURE-HEAD, by CROSBIE GARSTIN Poem Source First Line: There was an ancient carver that carved of a saint Subject(s): Sea FIGUREHEAD, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Source First Line: I was not meant to stand in a sea-edge garden Subject(s): Sea FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck Last Line: The old arithmetic? Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean FINAL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilde, sleeping Last Line: Grown enormous, in the brief clasp of your hands Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea FINALE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilde, years or days Last Line: Enormous, within your small hands Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea FINDRINNY, by CHARLOTTE ANNE ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Today (we know so much) Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what long tides Last Line: Ashes blown along the shore! Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire; Sea Voyages; Tides FIRST FRUITS IN 1812 [AUGUST 19, 1812], by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that a-billowing there Last Line: Found a prize, a bully battle, and a breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); Hull, Isaac (1773-1843); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; American Navy; Naval Warfare FIRST MOVEMENT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hour by hour, the day does not pass Last Line: The sea lives. The bells exist Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Last Line: And I let the fish go Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Sports FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean Last Line: And red when they are cooked. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean FISH FOOD, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As you drank deep as thor, did you think of milk or wine? Last Line: I will not ask any more. You saw or heard no evil Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Drowning; Sea FISH HEADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: A glowing crucifix (five Last Line: Burn your shark's -jaw crown Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea FISH-WOMEN - ON LANDING AT CALAIS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold Last Line: The undisturbed abodes where sea-nymphs dwell! Subject(s): Calais, France; Sea; Ocean FISHERMAN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman goes out at dawn Last Line: He sniffs and shuts one eye! Subject(s): Sea FISHERMAN'S LUCK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I sunk the lobster-pots Subject(s): Sea FISHERMEN, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: In the mantle of dawn dreamy boats Last Line: Branches that flash like a forest Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Markets; Sea FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean FIVE DEGREES SOUTH, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: I love all waves and lovely water in motion Subject(s): Sea FLASH FRIGATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing of a frigate, a frigate of fame Last Line: For they'll beat you and bang you till you ain't worth a d--n, %and send you an invalid to your own Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea FLENSERS, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Torn out of the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sea crashed over the grim gray rocks Last Line: "the flotsam and jetsam of human life, / no saving reflux knows" Subject(s): Disasters;sea;shipwrecks; Ocean FLYING DUTCHMAN, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winds are locked along the tropic shore Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Flying Dutchman (ship); Sea FLYING DUTCHMAN, SELS., by E. M. CLERKE Poem Source First Line: Still southward - through the torrid seas Subject(s): Sea FLYING FISH, by JOHN HENRY GRAY Poem Source First Line: Myself am hang, the buccaneer Last Line: There are seekers of wisdom not less absurd, %son hang, than thy fish that would be a bird Subject(s): Sea FLYING FISH, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Source First Line: This cruising caballero of the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sea FLYING FISH, by KATHERINE KELLEY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: The flashing of an arc that bright & briefly Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sea FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean FOAM STRAY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wears white like a wave Last Line: Set on a white sea. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean FOAMS THE WILD BEACH BELOW WITH MADDENING RAGE, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FOG, by MARGARET R. SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: An everywhere of mist Last Line: The soul of all sea things! Subject(s): Death; Sea Gulls; Dead, The FOG HORN AT NIGHT, by HELEN MITCHEL Poem Text First Line: Fashion the feel of it Last Line: Fog horn at night. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FOLLOW THE SEA, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it makes a man follow the sea? Last Line: "search me if I know!"" says billy magee." Subject(s): Sea Voyages FOR HENRIETTA POLYDORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the land and on the sea Last Line: Be best beloved and love us best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean FOR THOSE AT SEA; HYMN, by WILLIAM WHITING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal father, strong to save Last Line: Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Ocean FOR YOU - TRULY, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: I dare not write too lightly Last Line: To tell you what you are! Subject(s): Beauty; Sea; Trees; Writing & Writers; Ocean FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Last Line: That too is a game, made heavy %with what is to come Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; War FOUND AMONG LETTERS TO HIS MISTRESS, by ED WICKLIFFE Poem Source First Line: Let us set forth upon our journey now Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Letters; Sea Voyages; Travel FOUR CAPRI IMPROMPTUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the furze flower fainting in the noon heat Last Line: But not less quickly withered? Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Ocean FOUR HAIKU, by LANE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: The sea grinds down small Last Line: Of shells and pebbles Subject(s): Sea FOUR HOURS THE SUN HIS HIGH MERIDIAN .., FR. THE SHIPWRECK, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FOUR MATRICES: 4. THE SEA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Screw-gumption despite cold rain and clouds drifting below treetops Last Line: Rowboats sunk in fifty fathoms. After drifting the oceans for years. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The river is within us, the sea is all about us Last Line: The life of significant soil Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Sea FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year lies fallen and faded Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 2, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day I went to look at the mediterranean Last Line: And I saw there was no practice in the sea Subject(s): Italy; Mediterranean Sea FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me! Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean FRANKIE'S TRADE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old horn to all atlantic said Last Line: (all round the horn!) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FRENCHMAN'S BAY, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sudden and swift the mountains rise Last Line: I follow the restless sea. Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean FRESHEST BREEZE I CAUGHT, FR. EPISTLE TO MY BROTHER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FROM MY JOURNEYS I RETURN TO THE SAME SPOT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And ivy grew in his stare Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea FROM NORTH PORT, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Honing a minor seventh chord on its shear Last Line: Holding our breath all the way into the harbor Subject(s): Harbors; Sailors And Sailing; Sea FROM OVERSEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From oversea / violets for memories Last Line: Hither to thither oversea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Memory; Sea; Ocean FROM SEA TO SEA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shake hands! Kiss hands in haste to the sea Last Line: We gaze on the boundless, white balboa seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROM SHORE, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean goes, for fat miles Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROM THE SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All beauty calls you to me, and you seem Last Line: A heaven of unborn evanescent stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROWNING CLIFF, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea has a laugh Last Line: He'll smile at last %on a golden bed Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Sea FULL FATHOM FIVE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, you surface seldom Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FULL FATHOM FIVE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, you surface seldom Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea GALLANT SEAMAN'S RESOLUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A gallant youth at gravesend lived, a seaman neither rich nor poor Subject(s): Sea GALLANT SEAMAN'S RETURN FROM THE INDIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Observe this song, which is both neat and pretty Subject(s): Sea GALLANT SEAMAN'S SONG AT HIS MEETING OF BETTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well met, pretty betty, my joy and my dear Subject(s): Sea GARDENS OF THE SEA, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the ocean's sapphire lid Subject(s): Sea GATHERING SEAGATHERING SEA-LAVENDER, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: Gathering sea-lavender Last Line: And empowered by the radiance %our love of the sea plots around us Subject(s): Sea Lavender GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O epic-famed, god-haunted central sea Last Line: Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee. Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Mediterranean Sea GEO-BESTIARY: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life's too short to be a whore anymore,' Last Line: No dog whore but trotting legs, an empty stomach. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GHOST OF DAY YET HAUNTS THE TROUBLED WEST, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea GHOST SHIP, by ROBERT NEALEY Poem Text First Line: I did not even then quite understand Last Line: She quickly sailed away and soon grew dim. Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean GIBRALTAR AT DAWN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and over the sea we came Last Line: "the hoarse waves thunder, ""trafalgar!" Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What does the blue atlantic bring Last Line: And a black, tiny fly, stinging Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Morning; Nature; Sea GIGHA, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That firewood pale with salt and burning green Last Line: The sun with long legs wades into the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GLADNESS OF THE SEA, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: League after league of sunshine, and a face Subject(s): Sea GLADYS AND HER ISLAND, SELS., by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea %was filled with light Subject(s): Sea GLASS OF WATER, by CHARLES RAFFERTY Poem Source First Line: A glass of water spilled into the sea Last Line: Of water being spilled into the sea %soon to be vanished in that enormity Subject(s): History; Loss; Sea; Water GLASSY OCEAN HUSHED FORGETS TO ROAR, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea GLASSY SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As you see each of the stars has a voice Last Line: To the beginning but not beyond it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Sea; Stars GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moments there are that loom up from the past Last Line: Radiant with dreams and ancient ecstasy. Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Soul; Temples; Ocean; Mosques GLORIOUS HEADLAND BARE TO SUN AND SKY, by E. H. BRODIE Poem Source Subject(s): Sea GLORIOUS NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come listen to my story the truth I will unfold Last Line: So may success attend these heroes of the constitution's crew Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 GOD HELP OUR MEN AT SEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild night comes like an owl to its lair Last Line: God help our men at sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GOD OF THE SEA GREETS BRAN IN THE LAND OF THE WAVES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bran is astonished at the beauty of the waters Last Line: We cannot imagine debility; we %are unmarked by guilt Subject(s): Sea; Water; Waves GODSPEED, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great ship spreads her wings ... Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping GODSPEED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one Last Line: The unreturning voyage, my friends to me. Subject(s): Sea Voyages GOLDEN VANITY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A ship I have in the north countree Subject(s): Sea GOLIATH, by ATANAS SLAVOV Poem Source First Line: People knew for quite some time Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GONE DOWN THE TIDE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea GOOD TO EAT, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: We travel north to the edge of a continent Last Line: Later, we make a bed like deer in brush %and find the fields of our arms Subject(s): Railroads; Sea GRACE DARLING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take, o star of all our seas, from not an alien hand Last Line: While the sea that spared thee girds and glorifies the land. Subject(s): Death; Grace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean GRAVES BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This tranquil vault, assuming files of doves Last Line: And crash, waves, crush this tranquil vault %where crying taut sails plunged predators! Subject(s): Graves; Sea GREAT SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Climbing one day, I reach the plateau Last Line: Makes an effort to break his bonds Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea GREAT WING OF NEW ENGLAND, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: From sounding depths off martha's vineyard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GREENLAND FISHERY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In seventeen hundred and ninety-four Subject(s): Sea GREENPEACE SCIENTIST DEBATES THE ESKIMO WHALER, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: Flutes: whales respond to their sound Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GREENWICH PENSIONER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas in the good ship rover Subject(s): Sea GREENWICH, KENT; INSCRIPTION ON ANSON'S SHIP THE CENTURION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stay, traveller, awhile, and view Last Line: In ease with dignity appear, %he in the house of lord - I here Subject(s): Anson, George, Baron (1697-1762); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles GRISELDA OF THE SEAS, by AMY REDPATH RODDICK Poem Text First Line: Pale arrowy lights were in her eyes Last Line: Was I like her divine? Subject(s): Sea; Women; Ocean GULF STREAM, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say a tropic river threads the seas Subject(s): Gulf Stream; Sea GULF STREAM, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely and cold and fierce I keep my way Last Line: If I am most her lover or her foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Gulf Stream; Sea; Ocean GULF-WEED, by CORNELIUS GEORGE FENNER Poem Text First Line: A weary weed, tossed to and fro Last Line: Grace informing with silent soul. Subject(s): Sea; Seaweed; Ocean GULLAH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by VIRGINIA MIXSON GERATY Poem Source First Line: E bin de night befo' chris'mus en' eenside we house Last Line: Stillyet dey say uh pray fuh po' ole buh fox Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Gullahs; Santa Claus; Sea Islands Creole Dialect GULLS AND BUOYS, by ANNE LEMIEUX Poem Source First Line: Gulls swoop, gulls soar Last Line: Raucous caucus, birds of a feather Subject(s): New England; Sea Gulls H.M.S. GLORY AT SYDNEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now it seems an old forgotten fable Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Sea HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still the morning sea Last Line: Anointing the day Subject(s): Sea; Silence HAIL VOYAGERS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Voyagers, hail! Last Line: Ye left behind our pleasant shore. Subject(s): Sea Voyages HALF MILE DOWN, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sick heart and my sick soul Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HALF-TIDE LEDGE, by RICHARD PALMER BLACKMUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday the sea made morning worship, sang Subject(s): Sea HALIFAX STATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From halifax station a bully there came Last Line: "saying, 'we'll fight for our country, do all things that's right, / and let the world know, that gr Subject(s): "constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);hull, Isaac (1773-1843);sea Battles;war Of 1812;" Naval Warfare HALL OF OCEAN LIFE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the unmapped valleys of darkness, nor Last Line: Returning light to the light, come to be? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HAND OVER HAND (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A handy ship, and a handy crew Subject(s): Sea HANG-OVER, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Morning is a dingy room Last Line: And the lost, lost sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Morning; Sea; Sun; Wine; Ocean HANGING JOHNNY (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They call me hanging johnny Subject(s): Sea HARBOR SEALS, by BARBARA A. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: First one, then two, another some distance off Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HARBURY, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: All the men of harbury go down to the sea in ships Last Line: "any one who harks will still hear the sea cry." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HARP IN THE RIGGING, by HAMISH MACLAREN Poem Source First Line: There is a harp set above us Subject(s): Sea HARP SEALS, by SARAH COTTERILL Poem Source First Line: The cow nudges her young %between ice floes Last Line: Musicians at last for our own pleasure, and %hilarious, in spite of the hunter Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HARRIS, by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Mackinnon talks of the good water Last Line: Talks on the phone in gaelic and sounds so tender Subject(s): Relationships; Sea HARRY HAWKER, by FRANCIS HACKETT Poem Text First Line: So endlessly the gray-lipped sea Last Line: And followed up the sky. Variant Title(s): The Dead Aviator Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HARVEST, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a schooner came ashore this fall Last Line: That one might bring his soul to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean HARVEST OF THE SEA, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth grows white with harvest; all day ... Subject(s): Sea HARVEST OF THE SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hear us, o lord, from heaven, thy dwelling place Subject(s): Sea HAUL AWAY [O, OR JOE] (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Away, haul away, boys, haul away together Subject(s): Sea HAUL THE BOWLINE (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Sea HAVE I NOT FELT THE LONGING, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HAVE WE SAILED AND HAVE WE WANDERED, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: There where our far childhood grew Subject(s): Change; Sea HAVING LOST ALL CAPACITY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I read how japanese fishermen %lured thousands of dolphins ashore Last Line: Here in my room, the sons of bitches, %the bastards Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HE FAR AWAY BEHLD THE SEA, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HE PASSED THE SEA, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HEADLANDS STOOD OUT INTO THE MOON-LIT DEEP, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HEARS THE LOW PLASH OF WAVE O'ERWHELMING, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HEAVING OF THE LEAD, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For england when with favoring gale Last Line: "proclaim, -- ""all's well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HENRY MARTYN (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were three brothers in merry scotland Subject(s): Sea HERE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came here to count the bells Last Line: So here I live Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea HERE AND NOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of earth come and go Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HERITAGE, by KATHLEEN MERRICK Poem Source First Line: This child reflects the sea in every mood Subject(s): Sea HERMES OF THE WAYS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hard sand breaks Last Line: Shore-grass. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean HERO, by GEOFFREY DRAKE Poem Source First Line: My world was full of wonder until men Subject(s): Sea HERVE RIEL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the sea and at the hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two Last Line: The belle aurore! Subject(s): France; Heroism; Hogue, La, Battle Of; Sea; Heroes; Heroines; Ocean HIGH HEART, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that I watch from my window Last Line: When you come home. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIGH O'ER THE POOP THE AUDACIOUS SEAS ASPIRE, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Storms HIGH SEAS, by DANIEL GREEN Poem Source First Line: The landlocked farmer says it's just Last Line: Seduced sailors, who run away from farms Subject(s): Sea HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breath is on the glimmering ocean-floor Last Line: And soul environing of shadowy sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIGH-TIDE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I edged back against the night Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a gull catch a bait in midair Last Line: A hook, the end of the line. Subject(s): Investments; Sea; Seashore; Stocks; Bonds; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HILL AND SEA, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: Lost in the blue of distant hills Last Line: Your beauty wrings the heart of me! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIT IT WITH THE BABY', by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Rounding a corner in an open ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HO, FOR LUBBERLAND!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is a ship, we understand Subject(s): Cockaigne, Land Of; Sea HOBSON AND HIS MEN, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hobson went towards death and hell Last Line: Hobson and his men. Subject(s): Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare HOMAGE TO PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are days I can understand Last Line: At sea which owns no country Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping; Water HOME, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: He left his office for the street Last Line: He turned towards the sea. Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nobly, nobly cape saint vincent to the northwest died away Last Line: While jove's planet rises yonder, silent over africa. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HOMERIC HYMN TO NEPTUNE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Neptune, the mighty marine god, I sing Subject(s): Sea HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean HOMEWARD BOUND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a fiercer tempest Last Line: With our baby on her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages HOMEWARD BOUND, by D. H. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: They will take us from the moorings Subject(s): Sea HOMEWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She comes, majestic with her swelling sails Subject(s): Sea HOMEWARD BOUND, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Source First Line: There is no sorrow anywhere Subject(s): Sea HOMEWARD BOUND (LANDFALL), by BERTRAM MARTIN ADAMS ADAMS Poem Source First Line: There's the gals at the bar, there's the beer Subject(s): Sea HONOUR OF BRISTOL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Attend you and give ear awhile Subject(s): Sea HOPE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sailed and sailed upon the desert sea Last Line: Like yonder land. Perhaps -- perhaps -- perhaps! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose ships never come home Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean HORNET, OR VICTORY NUMBER FIVE, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, fredonia's sons rejoice Last Line: Our tars shall mars protect beneath our stars, %and fredonia's eagle hover o'er the sea Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HORSENECK BEACH ODALISQUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Gunmetal blue, then iris blue, then turquoise Last Line: Sat patiently and watched the sunset come Subject(s): Blue (color); Sea; Seashore HOUSE BY THE SEA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She thinks she can be happy Last Line: At the driftwood on the sea Subject(s): Happiness; Sea HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The journey ends here Last Line: Already, perhaps, weighs anchor for the eternal Subject(s): Houses; Sea; Travel HOW FROM THE EXCAVATING TIDE THEY WIN, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HOW LOUDLY MOANS THE UNHAPPY WEST, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That soon shall show the east Subject(s): Sea; Storms HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter Last Line: Going drifting out to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray swept the angry waves Last Line: As the cumberland went down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) HUEVOS MEXICANOS, by MICHAEL GREGORY Poem Source First Line: The full moon gapes onto the beach at nexpa Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye true sons of freedom, give ear to my song Last Line: And now with three cheers ere we sail to the main, %we will greet our brave captain again and again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HUMAN INHERITANCE, SELS., by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea HUMAN PULSE, TIDAL PULL, by KATHY COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The cottage by the shore Last Line: We fill with mercy as the sea brims with light Subject(s): Humanity; Sea HUMAN TRAGEDY, SELS., by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Last Line: Even the great whale, %throbs with song Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPBACKS, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: We know the humpback sings Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HYALI, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Island in blue of summer floating on Last Line: And like thy rocks shall down through time endure. Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Greeks HYDROGRAPHIC REPORT, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off portland: wind east, visibility eight Subject(s): Sea; Weather HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the harps which the winds play Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean HYMN TO OCEAN, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O cradle, whence the suns ascend Subject(s): Sea HYMN TO THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Great sea, too much have fools impugned our empire's might, boast Last Line: Sky, deposits evermore the infinite salt of stars. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean HYMN TO THE SEA, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saunter by the shore and lose myself Subject(s): Sea HYMN TO THE SEA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, o regal in bounty, a subtle and delicate largess Last Line: Man and his greatness survive, lost in the greatness of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I AM A SEA SHELL, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Put your ear to my lips and listen Last Line: I am a sea shell. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology I AM GRATEFUL, VIOLINS, FOR THIS DAY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The blue voice of air Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea I ASK THE WHALE, WHY?, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: For my spout is seen for miles Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters I DIDN'T COME TO FORGET, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: Like bells of strange doors Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Sea; Self I DO NOT SPRING FROM THE EARTH, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: Into the ears of the seafoam Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Sea I HAVE FOUR DOGS TO DECLARE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or in other dark places Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea I HAVE LOVED HOURS AT SEA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers I HAVE WALKED MANY ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They relax below the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel I KNOW, by R. J. LANG Poem Text First Line: I know a little hill-locked shore Last Line: Of god's undreamed infinitude. Subject(s): Sea Voyages I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean I LOVE..., by HOPE RIDINGS MILLER Poem Text First Line: Slow drifts of haze that veil the hills Last Line: And hours that I have spent with you. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean I MET THE MEXICAN TIHUATIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Seized by an endless task Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea I SAW BELOW ME, FR. THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea I SAW THREE SHIPS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I sat under a sycamore tree Last Line: On christ's sunday at morn! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I SHALL HAVE PEACE AGAIN (WRITTEN AFTER READING 'RIDERS TO THE SEA', by FLORA LOUISE BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Now all are gone. The sea can do no more Last Line: For all are gone. I shall have peace again. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU COME WITH ME, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With one provision: that we not understand each other Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea I WILL TELL YOU THAT I LIVED IN A CITY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe that street died %a natural death Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea I WOULD SAIL UPON THE TROPIC SEAS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other Last Line: And you know and you know. Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones I'D LIKE TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the ships all watching me Subject(s): Imagination; Lighthouses; Sea IBIZA 60, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Again we had ourselves locked up Last Line: Free us from these left-over %lies Subject(s): Boats; Sea; Sea Voyages; Water ICEBERGS, by WILLIAM PRESCOTT FOSTER Poem Source First Line: They come again, those monsters of the sea Subject(s): Icebergs; Sea ICH STAND AUF HOHEN BERGE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I stood on a mighty mountain Subject(s): Sea IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing And Singers IDEA: 1, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like an adventurous seafarer am I Last Line: My tedious travels and oft-varying fate. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IDOLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They made them idols in the elder days Last Line: Salute the mystery beyond their ken. Subject(s): God; Idols; South Sea Islands IF ALL THE SEAS WERE ONE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: What a splish splash that would be! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IF EACH DAY FALLS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And fish for fallen light %with patience Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Night; Sea IF I COULD GRASP A WAVE FROM THE GREAT SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source Subject(s): Sea IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IMPARTIAL SKIES, by ANNA WHITE HARDINGER Poem Text First Line: You sing a song of arid lands Last Line: To share the sky's expanse! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night Last Line: Sh! Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean IMPRESSIONS: LA MER, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white mist drifts across the shrouds Last Line: Float on the waves like ravelled lace. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IMPRESSIONS: LES SILHOUETTES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is flecked with bars of grey Last Line: Like silhouettes against the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IMPRINTS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Once running souls along the beach Last Line: Beneath the lava burns. Subject(s): Sea IN A STORM (ON THE BARK 'PESTALLOZI'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this great ship's tilted deck Last Line: O god, where art thou? ... Here am I! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms IN ABEYANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No skilled hands Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness IN CADENCED MIRRORS FALL THE SUDDEN NOTES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea IN CARMEL BAY, by MADGE CLOVER Poem Text First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day Last Line: She steps into the night. Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN DAYS OF YORE, TIS SAID, THE SWIMMING ALDER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Suffice to cross the purling wave and gain the destin'd port? Subject(s): Trees; Sea IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet. Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean IN FRONT BETWEEN THE GAPING HEIGHTS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea IN FULLEST JUNE / A WOMAN ENTERED MY LIFE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Had entered my house Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea IN GUERNSEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors Last Line: Beloved and blest. Subject(s): Guernsey; Night; Roundels; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three feet below his belly, the reef's Last Line: Sea fans, past conchs pink as cunts. Subject(s): Coral; Desire; Haiti; Sea; Ocean IN HARBOR, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, I praise thy broad expanse Last Line: Than on thy restless waves, o sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN HARBOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind Last Line: Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sea IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across this sea I sail, and do not know Last Line: The everlasting mystery to explore. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Sea Voyages; Dead, The IN OLD HASTINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ere dawn, when clustered stars are wan Last Line: Is gathered to the secret of the sea! Subject(s): Dawn; Hastings, England; Night; Sea; Sunrise; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue! Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean IN SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder Last Line: Abreast and ahead? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean IN THE BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Last Line: No sunrise and no sunset marks their day. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Seashore; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN THE DARK, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All moveless stand the ancient cedar-trees Last Line: Grant me to see the light! Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN THE DAY OF THE EAST WIND, by ELIZABETH CRAIGMYLE Poem Source First Line: The rocks at my feet are strewn with crimson Subject(s): Sea IN THE FOAM, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life swelleth in a whitening wave Last Line: Prattville, alabama, december, 1867. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue. Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green Last Line: In my heart a newer song. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World War IN THE OASIS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a paradise of trees Last Line: Within my mind these memories are. Subject(s): Islands; Kindness; Oases; Sea Voyages IN THE OPEN SEA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE SEA, by HIRAM RICH Poem Text First Line: The salt wind blows upon my cheek Last Line: God leads the eternal flow. Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean IN THE TRADES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, let her rip - with her royal clew a-quiver Last Line: In the weed and the coral, far below . . . Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE WATER, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, not in forest, nor moorlands sun-lighted Last Line: Oh, lower me down! I shall rest there, I know. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THIS SITUATION, by KURT DRAWERT Poem Source First Line: Saved, it seemed, we were dangling Last Line: By the moon. Under us a last piece of wood Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping INCOMING TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grey-glimmering thro' the dusky air Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea INFANTA MARINA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Her terrace was the sand Subject(s): Women; Sea; Ocean INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INISHMAAN, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: Considering millennia of tooth and bone and carapace Last Line: Nobbled things will translate well, bloom white as brides Subject(s): Change; Sea; Time INLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People that build their houses inland Last Line: One salt taste of the sea once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean INLAND SEA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the moonlit sea Last Line: Like apprehension's baffling destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Sea; Japanese; Ocean INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSIDE THE TURTLE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: My heart once promised Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters INSOUCIANCE IN STORM (ON THE ORE-BOAT 'HOWE'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in an ore-boat's hold Last Line: Mid rushing hills of storm! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms INSTANT, by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: Keep your eyes closed, which are covered by the fog Last Line: You can't see in the foggy aegean sea Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Fog INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALKING ON WATER, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When sitting foot onto the water, keep in mind Last Line: And you no longer care which way leads up or down Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Swimming; Water INTERPRETED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, eastward o'er the billows white Last Line: What means, o sea, thy moaning! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean INTO THE SILENCE (A DEATH IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ungather'd lie the peats upon the moss Last Line: "he lies, and waits the lord in darkness grim." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Silence; Dead, The; Ocean INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean IOLAIRE; LINES WRITTEN IN THE NORTH DEA ON BOARD THE S.Y. IOLAIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This was the land that the norseman plough'd! Last Line: The phantom hosts of the norsemen glide. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vikings; Ocean IRRECONCILIATION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Tonight the moon hangs low, low Last Line: And shelter for us! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean IS IT THE SEA YOU HEAR IN ME?', by PATRICIA MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In the kitchen Last Line: I might become the bed Subject(s): Children; Sea IS MY LOVER ON THE SEA?, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sea IS THE SEA THERE? TELL IT TO COME IN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I want to know if I exist Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave Last Line: All honor to queen isabel! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ISLAND BORN (1), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in an island town Last Line: I wear the sea as others wear a crown! Variant Title(s): Sea Born Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ISLAND BORN (2), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother loved the way of ships that go Last Line: It was not strange an island was my home. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Ocean ISLAND IN LAND, by BOGOMIL GJUZEL Poem Source First Line: Who claims we have no sea? Last Line: What else could explain why the sea is so unfit to drink? Subject(s): Islands; Sea ISLANDMEN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And they come sailing Last Line: With their detail, these keep to the one %fact of the sea, its pitilessness, its beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Sea ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea ISLE AFTER ISLE WITH GREY EMPURPLED ROCKS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ISLE OF PALMS, SELS., by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Sea ISOLATE, by PORTIA MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I looked out over the ocean Last Line: And watched it disappear. Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean IT APPEARS THAT A DIFFERENT SHIP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the ship does not sail Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea IT HAPPENS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They knocked on my door on the sixth of august Last Line: Such a spacious and specific interview Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea IT KNOCKS AT A DOOR OF STONE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The wave climbs smoothly over the door %of earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea IT RAINS / OVER THE SAND, OVER THE ROOF, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With transparent time %with tears Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea JACK CREAMER [OCTOBER 25, 1812], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boarding nettings are triced for fight Last Line: And the nation was close to its maker then. Variant Title(s): Jack Cramer Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Sea Battles; United States (ship); War Of 1812; Naval Warfare JACK ROBINSON, by THOMAS+(2) HUDSON Poem Source First Line: The perils and dangers of the voyage past Subject(s): Sea JACK'S FIDELITY, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If ever a sailor was fond of good sport Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sea JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fading light on a lonely beach Last Line: And frets the silted sand. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JOHN FRANCOIS (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boney was a warrior Subject(s): Sea JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great master of the poet's art! Last Line: Itself a canticle of love! Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Ocean JOHN JONES: 3. ON THE SANDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was nothing at all in the case (con Last Line: Till one night -- 'is god off now? Or on? Subject(s): Love; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JOHN JONES: 4. UP THE SPOUT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say! Last Line: Of jewry! Just in time! Subject(s): God; Jews; Sea; Judaism; Ocean JOHN WINTER, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails john winter, that so oft Last Line: Among his mates once more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JONAH: STORY OF JONAH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Jonah rose up to flee unto tarshish from the presence of the lord Subject(s): Sea JOTTINGS: THE SEA IS ITSELF, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is itself: it does not fear to be calm or stormy Last Line: Why have I feared to be like the sea -- myself? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JOTTINGS: THE SEA WHISPERS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea whispers to me of women because I am lonely Last Line: Now bass of men's voices furious, urgent, and strong. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean JOURNAL OF THE LAGUNA DE SAN IGNACIO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Source First Line: Immense architecture building in air Last Line: Hearing the music of the sirens %thought to be angels... Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters JUBILATE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray distance hid each shining sail Subject(s): Sea JUBILEE SONG, by JAMES NORTH Poem Text First Line: All hail to atlantic! This festival 'wakens Last Line: Move to the strains of the glad jubilee. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean JULIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night came on the waters - all was rest Last Line: With honest wonder what might next betide. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sea JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Last Line: How it would have feared us Subject(s): Sea; United States; Ocean; America JUST AT THE MOONRISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing the rush and roar of the deep-sea breakers Last Line: Just at the moonrise! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean KEARSARGE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday in old england Last Line: Lords of the lonely deep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Naval Warfare KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was early sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four" Last Line: "hoist up the flag, and long may it waive, / god bless america, the home of the brave!" Subject(s): "alabama (ship);american Civil War;cherbourg, France;kearsarge (ship);sea Battles;u.s. - History;winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873);" Naval Warfare KEEP THE FLAG WAVING, JACK!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy, but never you mind! Last Line: God bless our boys! Subject(s): Boys; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: EPILOGUE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glitter of seas, green meadows, sun and rain Last Line: Than bid you die by mine.' Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; Time KING CHARLES' VOYAGE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With comrades twelve upon the main Last Line: Till no more tempest stirred. Variant Title(s): Charlemagne's Voyage Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Sea Voyages KING HERMANDIAZ, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, standing by the shore, I saw the moon Last Line: "that said or seemed to say, ""hail, hermandiaz!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Sea Voyages; Avalon (legend); Arthur, King KING RICHARD III, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean L'ENVOI - LEAVE HER JOHNNY (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I thought I heard the captain say Subject(s): Sea L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each in the self-same field we glean Last Line: And lighter-hearted than voltaire. Subject(s): Islands; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the marsh Last Line: And the tumult of waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean LAND'S END, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A day all blue and white, and we Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean LAND'S END (POINT LOBOS, CALIFORNIA), by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Here rage the furies that ... Shaped the world Subject(s): Sea LAND-HORSES AND SEA-HORSES, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: The patient horses of the plough Last Line: The deathless horses of the deep! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses LANDFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Landfall at dawn, and madeira rose from the sea Last Line: And sinking glad to his knees. Subject(s): Hearts; Landfall; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water LANDSCAPES AND SEASCAPES: ON THE SOLENT, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: A silken, seamless afternoon, the jacquard Last Line: And fall into a dark, vertiginous release? Subject(s): Sea LAST CARGO, by SILENCE BUCK BELLOWS Poem Source First Line: What are the voices that harass ... Dreaming? Subject(s): Sea LAST GLOUCESTERMAN, by GORDON GRANT Poem Source First Line: Hail and farewell! Lo, I am the last Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping LAST VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, AND SIR JOHN HAWKINS, by CHARLES FITZ-GEFFREY Poem Source First Line: Whenas a royal fleet, with joyful minds Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sea LAUGH OF A SAILOR, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: The dimpled waves of the ocean Last Line: But never a thought of me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean LAURIE'S HOUSE, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: The sea otter strokes its beard and flies in through Last Line: The seven years that followed were the happiest of her life Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Sea LAY OF THE LAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out behind the house land and sea Last Line: As we lean homeward Subject(s): Home; Sea Voyages LAZINESS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never worked on sunday Last Line: The chest of my dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea LE RAPPROCHEMENT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet! I linger, but for thee Last Line: Pledge us a bright morrow's meeting. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sleep; Sun; Ocean LEADSMAN'S SONG (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The for england, when with favouring gale Subject(s): Sea LEAPING DOLPHINS, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source First Line: Dolphins leaping at prows in tagomago's Last Line: Of men's rare happiness Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Sea LEAVING FOREVER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He says the waves in the ship's wake Subject(s): Sea Voyages LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LEAVING THE LAND, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The sea has come to seek us Last Line: Your tragedies and your ostentations Subject(s): Sea; Thought LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LEPANTO, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White founts falling in the courts of the sun Last Line: (but don john of austria rides home from the crusade.) Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Crusades; John Of Austria (1629-1679); Lepanto, Battle Of; Sea; Don Juan The Younger; Ocean LERICI, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley was drowned near here. Arms at his side Last Line: Squandering with so little left to spend Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Sea LES CASQUETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the depth of the waters that lighten and darken Last Line: The love of the heart of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LESS SECURITY AT SEA THAN ON SHORE; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When seas are calm, tost by no angry wind Last Line: Whose purling noise with pleasure charms the ear. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LESSER EPISTLES: A PANEGYRICAL TO MR. THOMAS SNOW, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disdain not, snow, my humble verse to hear Last Line: "there, take my tally of ten thousand pound." Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal) LETTER TO NORA DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear nora Last Line: Way round cape matapan & so to the piraeus as fast as we can Subject(s): Guests; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel LEVIATHAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leviathanic natures, / huge-browed, vast-spined Last Line: Of time and night. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Skulls; Dead, The; Ocean LEVIATHAN, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: Morning touches the waves and breaks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the dark we grope along Last Line: Which led us to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON, SELS., by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea LIFE ON THE LAKES: REQUIEM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a far wet way to the journey's end Last Line: Where the headboards show—sleep well, my friend! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms LIGHT AND SHADE, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too deeply blue! Too beautiful! Too bright! Subject(s): Sea LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LIGHTNING, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Mad thunder is a seamstress Last Line: But her knot of gold, the sun. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Sky; Sun; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Ocean LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: It was already too late %when the swimmers began Last Line: The vacant imponderable sky Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lightning; Nature; Sea; Swimming LIKE ONE VAST SAPPHIRE FLASHING LIGHT, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Sea LIKE THE DANCE OF THE DOLPHIN IN THE OCEAN, by LOURDES ESPINOLA Poem Source First Line: If I could appear Last Line: Like the dance of the dolphin in the ocean Subject(s): Dolphins; Sea LINES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As the atlantic withdraws Last Line: As the lines on maggie daly's face. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wrinkles LINES FOR H.F. BROWN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing Last Line: I in my lesiure made the present verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sea Voyages LINES FROM THE SEA; TO D'ANNUZIO: JANUARY 1921, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loudens the sea-wind, downward plunge the bows Last Line: That, when my hour strikes, I, as he, may dare! Subject(s): Adriatic Sea; D'annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) LINES ON THE SEA, by DILYS BENNETT LAING Poem Source First Line: The sky's lip and the sea's lip shut in peace Last Line: And even the little vertical of man %is blocked out solid in a capital I Subject(s): Sea LINES ON THE VIEW FROM ST. LEONARDS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thy face and odors, glorious sea Last Line: Shall sing thy glory, beatific sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LINES WRITTEN IN A LONELY BURIAL GROUNDS ON NORTHEN COAST OF HIGHLANDS, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How mournfully this burial-ground Last Line: Down -- down a thousand fathoms deep Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean LISCANNOR BAY, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two walls of precipices black and steep Subject(s): Sea LITTLE BILLEE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three sailors of bristol city Last Line: The captain of a seventy-three. Variant Title(s): The Three Sailors Subject(s): Sea; Ocean LITTLE BOAT, by KATHY HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Down by the shore Last Line: At the edge of the sea %singing Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Seashore LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: There is space in mountains Last Line: Very brief. Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean LIVERPOOL GIRLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I was youngster I sailed with the rest Subject(s): Sea LONELY HARBOR, by HELEN EVELYN WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: We used to walk the wave-washed shore Last Line: Is always there for me! Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Waves; Ocean LONELY MARGIN OF THE SEA, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea LONG AGO, ON A JOURNEY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was that which was being born Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea LONG LITHE WAVE / NOW WHITE FRINGED, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea LONG TIME AGO (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A long, long time, and a long time ago Subject(s): Sea LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Tower, turret, and embrasure Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea LONG TRIP, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is a wilderness of waves Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Sea; Negroes; American Blacks; Ocean LONG TRIP, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is a wilderness of waves Last Line: The sea is a desert of waves, %a wilderness of water Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Sea LONGFELLOW, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea the swift sad message darts Last Line: Of aspiration human and divine. Subject(s): Death; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness LOOKOUT, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies the land upon the sea Subject(s): Sea LOOP HEAD, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sheer surf-beaten island fronts the shore Subject(s): Sea LORD ARNALDOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The strangest of adventures Last Line: Who sail away with me Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Sailors And Sailing; Sea LORD EXMOUTH'S VICTORY AT ALGIERS, 1816, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun looked bright upon the morning tide Last Line: In glorious victory. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Pellew, Edward. 1st Viscount Exmouth; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare LORD I AM HERE. - BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I bring thee to the haven where thou wouldst be Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; God; Seeking; Salvation LOSS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea called / you faced the estuary Last Line: The gods wanted you back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Last Line: Toss no morem sib %sleep Variant Title(s): Pacific Lamen Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Battles; World War Ii LOST EXPEDITION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lift - lift, ye mists, from off the ... Coast Subject(s): Sea LOST LETTERS: 3, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER Poem Source First Line: Already it is cool enough Last Line: The whistling buoy that warns %when rocks are near Subject(s): Letters; Sea; Travel LOST SHIPS, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL Poem Source First Line: Where have you hidden them?' I asked the sea Subject(s): Sea LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: At docks? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel LOVE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark's on the water; come down, come down Last Line: In the sea they have found a common grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are in love's land today Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LOVE EPHEMERAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is sweet, and so are flowers Last Line: Love endures but for a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sea; Ocean LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I sat upon the shore Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life. Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LOW TIDE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gathering over the dunes Last Line: Why did you bring me down to the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean LOW TIDE A.M., by JOHN WILLSON Poem Source First Line: An ancient octopus, blasted Last Line: And consign last night to sea water Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Tides LOW TIDE AT ST. ANDREWS (NEW BRUNSWICK), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long red flats stretch open to the sky Last Line: The silence of the sands when tides are low. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sea; Summer; Ocean LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean LOWLANDS (1) (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I dreamt a dream the other night Subject(s): Sea LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean LUX IN TENEBRIS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: It was night Last Line: Asail on a blue-black sky. ... Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LYRIC, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low laughter of light Last Line: That spans the sky. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Time; Ocean LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 47, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love, in fond converse together Last Line: We mournfully floated along. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW: 3, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea speaks to me of you Last Line: Voicing my grief. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now to be with you, elate, unshared Last Line: Oh hasten hither my kestrel joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Sea MAID OF AMSTERDAM (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In amsterdam dwelt a maid Subject(s): Sea MAIN-SHEET SONG, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rushing along on a narrow reach Subject(s): Sea MAKING LAND, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fore-royal furled, I pause and I stand Subject(s): Sea MAKING PORT, by JAMES THOMPSON MCKAY Poem Source First Line: All day long till the west was red Subject(s): Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Sea MAMMALS, by ERNEST KROLL Poem Source First Line: The sailor, shipwrecked, treading Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MAMMALS, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whales are mourning Last Line: In his pen of air - from whom %the wind whips such noises Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Sea Monsters; Whales MAN, by CORDELIA SIPPER Poem Source First Line: Through the waves Last Line: We mustn't forget about that cloud Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Sea MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MAN CURSING THE SEA, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: Someone %just climbed to the top of the cliffs Last Line: There you go, water, he said, %and went his way Subject(s): Sea MAN CURSING THE SEA, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: Someone %just climbed to the top of the cliff Last Line: And went his way Subject(s): Sea MAN IN BLACK, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the three magenta Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame! Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MARCH MAGIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the fickle birds return Last Line: A magic wisp of moon. Subject(s): Birds; Magic; March (month); Sea; Ocean MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MARE AMORIS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: If your ecstasies implore Last Line: Where I enter I destroy. Subject(s): Sea; Togetherness; Ocean MARE MEDITERRANEAN, by JOHN NICHOL Poem Text First Line: A line of light! It is the inland sea Last Line: Of glory to the brave! Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MARGARET BENEATH THE WAVES, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not weep at night, for then in dreams Last Line: And let me sleep with her the last sleep of the blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the long days and nights! The days that bring Last Line: With early flowers clustering here and there! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; France; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Last Line: And woodthrush calling through the fog %my daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sea MARINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chariots of silver and copper Last Line: Whose angle is struck by the whirlwinds of light. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARINE, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You would have been as quiet as this sea Last Line: Nothing but ocean and the empty sky. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARINE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boat is cutting into the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARITIME ODE, SELS., by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Ah, pirates, pirates, pirates! Last Line: O my masters, o my masters! Subject(s): Pirates; Sea MARSH MUSIC, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: A thread of sea is sewn in the green land Last Line: Of the sea's sound -- attenuated clang. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARVEL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A baron of the sea, the great tropic Last Line: With the power of the sea %writing her name and a marvel too Subject(s): Sea MARY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my heart it will break, my eyes they will weep" Last Line: For unbroken and still is the sleep on his head Subject(s): Hearts;lament;love;sea;soul; Ocean MAXIMUS, LETTER 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: . . . . . Tell you? Ha! Who Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Work; Workers; Ocean MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had to learn the simplest things Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have had to learn the simplest things Last Line: Stretching out %from my feet Subject(s): Sea MAY JANET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, stand up, thou may janet Last Line: And a gold flag overhead. Subject(s): Marriage; Sea; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean MAY-DAY AT SEA, by JOHN F. FINERTY Poem Source First Line: How do you know that may has come Subject(s): Sea MAYDENS OF LONDON'S BRAVE ADVENTURES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you very merry london girls, that are disposed to travel Subject(s): Sea MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MEASURE, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Motion on the seas Last Line: Signets to authencity and foremost authority Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians MEDITERRANEAN, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whirlwind's vortex Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MEDITERRANEAN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where we went in the boat was a long bay Last Line: Rot on the vine: in that land were we born Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MEDITERRANEAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is the same Last Line: The ilex is like trying to translate %a poem into another language Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MEDITERRANEAN SUNS!, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of these resorts? %just climb down Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; Sun MEDITERRANEAN: 6, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea produced that town: sete, which the boat turns to Subject(s): Sea MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray sea and the long black land Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each. Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore MEETING OF THE SHIPS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, o'er the silent seas alone Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sea MEG BLANE, SELS., by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home is now a thousand miles away Last Line: Lord, in that strait, the judge! Remember me! Subject(s): Faith; Sea Voyages; Belief; Creed MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize Last Line: What can ye do but weep? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean MERMAID, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On friday morn as we set sail Subject(s): Sea MERMAID AS SHE REALLY IS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: She hails it blowing a derisive raspberry %on a shell-pink conch Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea; Women MERMAN ROSMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There dwells a lady in denmark Subject(s): Sea MESSMATES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He gave us all a goodbye cheerily Last Line: When the great ships go by. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MEVILLE, AMERICA, by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: He had spent his youth at sea, had read Last Line: And distances were annihilated by fire that exploded in captivity Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Shipwrecks MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Because the ebb and flow Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MICHAEL OAKTREE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed Last Line: The sacrament and sabbath of the sea. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MID-OCEAN IN WAR TIME, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fragile splendour of the level sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Sea MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old Last Line: And dionysos, young, and a stranger %leans listening on the gate, in all respect Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MIDNIGHT AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the deep stillness of the awful night Last Line: "may cry of ""all is well"" our midnight cheer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea Voyages MIDSHIPMAN, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aid me, kind muse, so whimsical a theme Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea MIDSUMMER DAWN AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship glides steadily on Last Line: Open, to close no more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MIGHTY SEA! CAMELEON-LIKE THOU CHANGEST, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea MIRACULOUS SHIP, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Provision a ship for me like a great idea Last Line: Will be bear?...Already living and dreaming make me die Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping MITSRAYIM, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A country of the sultan of jinns where he secretly escaped Last Line: Mitsrayim. Forty days. He has grown his hair. He likes his loneliness Subject(s): Exiles; Sea Voyages; Travel MMMMMM, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: All night the lady tosses in her sodden sheets Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life Last Line: When such a moment came to me! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean MONHEGAN GULLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls on monhegan Last Line: To my remembering heart. Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gulls; Sea; Sky; Flying; Seagulls; Ocean MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath Last Line: And self begin to be. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean MONTAUK BEACH, WINTER FOR M.R., by APRIL DENONNO Poem Source First Line: Inside the rented bungalow the floors collect sand Last Line: And sinks the water closing like a dream Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Seashore; Water MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean MOON ON THE SEA, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dim twilight dreams Last Line: Pale moon! Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean MOONLIGHT AT SEA, by GERTRUDE M. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I linger on the deck and watch the moon Last Line: Trace out her golden glory on the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean MOONLIGHT NIGHT: CARMEL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the waves march Last Line: And beating the land's %edge into a swoon Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Sea; Seashore MOONRISE AT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long slow swell of the still sea Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea MOONRISE FROM IONA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where in dim forgotten days Last Line: The bat flies and the owl doth brood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Wind; Ocean MORNING, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From high tide in the night a dead Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MORNING SEA, by CHARLES A. FOX Poem Source First Line: Cradled in sapphire mist, morn's sunlit deep Subject(s): Sea MOTEL VIEW, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is conceivable in fact that waves Subject(s): Sea; Weather; Cape Ann, Massachusetts; Ocean MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting Last Line: Hurtling to the sea. Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents MOUNTAIN-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How hast thou, little spring Last Line: "again I nightly rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MOURNING, by JEANNE VOEGE Poem Source First Line: In cold morning wind we stand on shore Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MOUTHFUL OF BOAT, by LAURIE ANN BLAUNER Poem Source First Line: True believers take time on its own terms Last Line: Trees waving like all the little gods Subject(s): Sea; Time MR. MERRY'S LAMENT FOR LONG TOM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cruise is over now Last Line: Poor tom. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MUGFORD'S VICTORY, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother, the pride of us all Last Line: And who brought him, though dead, to his own! Subject(s): American Revolution; Mugford, James; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MY FOUNTAIN, by LUIS GONZAGA ORTIZ Poem Source First Line: Hard by the cottage, innocent and free Last Line: My humble, sweet and murmurous fount, of thee! Subject(s): Fountains; Sea; Water MY GRAVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the ocean grave, under the azure wave Last Line: There be the sleeping-place chosen by me. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean MY GRIEF ON THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His mouth to my mouth Subject(s): Grief;sea;sea Voyages; Sorrow;sadness;ocean MY LOST YOUTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of the beautiful town Last Line: "and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Variant Title(s): Sea Memories;lost Youth Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portland, Maine; Sea; Youth; Childhood; Ocean MY MARY ANN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fare you well my own mary ann Last Line: In angel form to my mary ann Subject(s): Farewell;love;sea;ships & Shipping; Parting;ocean MY MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A venus seems my mouse Last Line: Keep house. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory; Mice; Sea; Ocean MY NAME WAS REYES, CATRILEO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because I come from below %from the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea MY OWN, by SYLVIA BING Poem Text First Line: Acrid fragrance of salt in the night air - Last Line: And the waves against the shore are droning -- droning -- Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean MY RIVER RUNS TO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Say — sea — take me! Subject(s): Rivers; Sea MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean MYTHISTOREMA: 12. BOTTLE IN THE SEA, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: Three rocks, a few burnt pines, a lone chapel Last Line: We put to sea again with our broken oars Subject(s): Sea NAMES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, eduvigis, you have such a beautiful Last Line: Like a burning green ember %hidden in time Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea NAMES OF HISTORY, by AL MAGINNES Poem Source First Line: When the first speared masts stabbed Last Line: Into the wide blank spill of ocean Subject(s): History; Sea NARROW SEA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With you for mast and sail and flag Subject(s): Sea NARWHALS, by KATHRYN NOCERINO Poem Source First Line: Under the water they click their horns together Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NAUTICAL BALLAD, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A capital ship for an ocean trip Last Line: The bark of the rug-gub tree Variant Title(s): The Walloping Window-blin Subject(s): Sea NAVAL VICTORY, BY THE UNITED STATES FIRGATE CONSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye hardy sailors, and join me in my song Last Line: And so to all our yankee crew, %who british seamen can subdue, %as true yankee boys Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 NAY, COME UP HITHER. FROM THIS WAVED-WASHED MOUND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea NEAP PLUS ULTRA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is like the ocean Last Line: He was afraid of the undertow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean NEAP-TIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off is the sea, and the land is afar Last Line: In the sun and the wind and the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Ocean NEAR US ARE THE FOES. THEY COME FORWARD LIKE WAVES, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Sea NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NEARING HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ruler of the earth and sky ...' Subject(s): Sea NEPTUNE'S RAGING FURY, OR THE GALLANT SEAMAN'S SUFFERINGS, by MARTIN PARKER Poem Source First Line: You gentlemen of england %that live at home at ease Subject(s): Sea NEREID, by PAUL CAREL Poem Text First Line: Born of the sea's resistless surge Last Line: Ten fathoms down. Subject(s): Nereid (mythology); Sea; Ocean NEREID, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She dances on a scallop stage Last Line: By tossing sea weed at her feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean NEREID'S SONG, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held you in my arms Last Line: The ocean's at the door Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NERUDA, THE WINE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the seas through whom the great fish passed Subject(s): Sea NEVER AN ILLNESS, NOR THE ABSENCE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Inside of me, the unwavering light Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea NEW ENGLAND, by EDNA LEMONT MALONE Poem Text First Line: You stand a worthy sentinel Last Line: Those are the things we prize. Subject(s): New England; Sea; Ocean NEW MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now day / drawing his golden waters down the west Last Line: From their too youthful wonder in the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean NEW PROVIDENCE ISLAND, BAHAMAS, by DONALD KUMMINGS Poem Source First Line: Pallid, bloated as a fish, the day swells with heat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NEW SONG ON LORD NELSON'S VICTORY AT COPENHAGEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Draw near, ye gallant seamen, while I the truth unfold Subject(s): Sea NEW SONG ON PARKER THE DELEGATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I will not sing in parker's praise Subject(s): Sea NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can hate the sea as it floods Subject(s): Hospitals; Sea; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Ocean NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW ZEALAND ELEGY, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Last Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Subject(s): Boats; New Zealand; Sea Voyages NEWES FROM VIRGINIA, by RICHARD RICH Poem Text First Line: It is no idle fabulous tale, nor is it fanyed newes Last Line: May heaven assist them in their worke, and thus our newes is done. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Virginia (state) NEWPORT NEWS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge sea monster, the 'merrimac' Last Line: And that is the picture of newport news. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Newport News, Virginia; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) NEWT AND THE WHALE, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Wait to go %to the whale symposium Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NIGHT, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night comes & stars their wonted vigils keep Subject(s): Sea NIGHT AT SEA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely purple of the noon's bestowing Last Line: Her voyage done -- to-morrow we shall land. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sea Voyages NIGHT FALL, by KENT GODFREY Poem Text First Line: Sea gulls and spray Last Line: Tolling its echo within me. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean NIGHT HYMN AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night sinks on the wave Last Line: Power dwells with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the stars would come Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on! Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, god, how well they meant Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains! Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean NIGHT SAILING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver web across the sky Last Line: How shall we miss the starry web? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails NIGHT STORM, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This tempest sweeps the atlantic! - nevasink Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Storms NIGHT WATCHING, by FREDDA S. PEARLSON Poem Source First Line: Only now does she emerge Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NIGHT-SONG, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night -- my bark is on the ocean Last Line: Bless thee, my love! Good night, good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Ocean NIGHTS ON THE INDIAN OCEAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon .... Last Line: When nippon isle was made. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques NIRVANA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am / a clam! Subject(s): "clams;coney Island, New York City;sea;" Ocean NO NIGHT FOR SLUMNBER IS THIS, FR. A NIGHT'S RHAPSODY, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE Poem Source Subject(s): Sea NO SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south come the birds that were banished Last Line: But unto a dead love there cometh no spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean NOCTURNE IN SILVER, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Against the moon-rayed shore the breakers curled Last Line: With minor chords to tear the heart asunder. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NOISE FROM THE SEA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin was the shore Last Line: Father than she could hold Subject(s): Sea; Skin; Women NOON BY THE SEA SIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet is the broad ocean -- wide between Last Line: So beautiful, so peaceful, and so pure! Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Sea NOR'EASTER, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: Out in a dark, lost kingdom of their own Subject(s): Sea NORSE SAILORS' JOY, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: Now, landsmen, list! There is no sight Subject(s): Sea NORTH COUNTRY COLLIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the head of wear water, about twelve at noon Subject(s): Sea NORTH JETTY, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Spy satellite sees a blue circle bisected Last Line: Been flowing? Hasn't our blood? Out of reach %a dolphin blows, breathes, sinks Subject(s): Sea; Sea Monsters; Water NORTH SEA, by JEFFERY DAY Poem Source First Line: Dawn on the drab north sea! Last Line: Tis a fight to the death; 'tis war %and the north sea is redly reeking Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I NORTH SEA, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Huge shards of glass and ice slash through the north sea Last Line: Held tightly, tightly, tightly, in one embrace Subject(s): Sea NORTH SHIP, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships go sailing by Last Line: Into an unforgiving sea %under a fire-spilling star, %and it was rigged for a long journey Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping NORTH UIST, by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source First Line: Unearthly green and aquamarine Last Line: We pick up some provisions from the naafi Subject(s): Sea NOT WHERE THEY CLASH ASHORE, AND BREAK AND MOAN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sea NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will come back to you and you to me Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two rising flukes of green water Last Line: Must bear away the most meat. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In ireland now, why do so many Last Line: Good night, sweet prince, good night'? Subject(s): Death; Hope; Ireland; Poverty; Rivers; Sea; Suicide NOW, LAY THINE EAR AGAINST THIS GOLDEN SAND, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O FAR AWAY, GREEN WAVES, YOUR VOICES CALL, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou sayest to men: go back & come not hither Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ships & Shipping O LOVED AND LOST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the sea this autumn day Last Line: And we are one in life for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean O MARINERS!, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death is a voyage,' I heard it lightly told Subject(s): Death; Sea O NAVIS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, to the roadstead rolled Last Line: Tempt not the tyrant sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Sea; Ocean O SEA WITH GOOD ARMS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O sea with good arms, loving and strong Last Line: And the birds that build nests, and the children like me Subject(s): Sea O SLEEP, THOU HOLLOW SEA, THOU SOUNDLESS SEA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea O WILD BLACK SEA THAT FLASHES FITFUL LIGHT, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OAR, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Anyone finding a smashed oar Last Line: And renounced the possibilities of the oar Subject(s): Rowing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean OCEAN, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of the years find rest in thee Last Line: Thy child eluding thee in resurrection. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OCEAN, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stone absorbs heat. Thrown Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clay %ganesha Last Line: Goes on forever Subject(s): Sea OCEAN, by GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful! - from his blue throne on high Subject(s): Sea OCEAN, by JOHN AUGUSTUS SHEA Poem Source First Line: Likeness of heaven! Subject(s): Sea OCEAN, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye again. Say there is a little song in my head Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Death; Ocean; Dead, The OCEAN, by LAURA ST. MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The ocean is a strange Last Line: And the moon casts a furious gleam on the many-knuckled sea Subject(s): Sea OCEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomed deep, unfetter'd waste Last Line: Its shade on hope's dim ray. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OCEAN ALGAE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: When adolescents %slough off %love Subject(s): Adolescence; Love; Sea Voyages OCEAN CITY, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The things unfurls itself. All day I cannot reach it Last Line: Watch the ocean wring its edge as I twist my hands. %it's unfurling itself again, tireless as an arg Subject(s): Nature; Sea OCEAN LESSON, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Val drips the slime of the moonsnail Last Line: Trumpeting the final show and tell Subject(s): Sea; Water OCEAN LULLABY, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our ship is a cradle on ocean's blue billow Subject(s): Sea OCEAN MIGHTIER THAN THE LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And kiss her hand? Subject(s): Sea OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCEAN TREASURES, by CONSTANCE ANDREA KEREMES Poem Source First Line: What treasures lie beneath Subject(s): Sea OCEAN VOICES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sea-birds sing on the mossy crag Last Line: Are the waters of shim'ring blue. Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean OCEAN, THE CAPTIVE, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: Men call thee free, and I have heard the wind Subject(s): Sea OCEAN, WITH ITS VASTNESS, ITS BLUE GREEN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OCEANIDES, 1. THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIP, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is on her way, a goodly ship Last Line: A land where is 'no more sea!' Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 12. THE HAVEN GAINED, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And we are parting, glorious sea! Last Line: Such friendships as I leave behind Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 2. MY SEA-HERMITAGE, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swinging in my cot at ease Last Line: Of the nearer friend above! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 4. THE SUNKEN ROCK, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle ship was sailing Last Line: Thus, upon the self-same seas, %sang the oceanides! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 9. THE EDEN OF THE SEA, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream! A dream! Our billowy home Last Line: Feels ever what at first he felt Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sri Lanka OCEANS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I have a feeling that my boat Last Line: And are we standing now, quietly, in the new life Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 16. THE SAME SKY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought until one night I' the / dark Last Line: And asked them to guide well my dear one's barque.) Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs Last Line: If I were thou, I'd call me us Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea ODE TO NEPTUNE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While raging tempests shake the shore Last Line: Not give my wishes to the empty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea; Ocean ODE TO SALT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This salt %in the saltcellar %I once saw in the salt mines Last Line: Reveals to us %more than domestic whiteness; %in it, we taste infinitude Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; Salt; Sea ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE TO THER SEA, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lure me, o musical motions of the sea Last Line: Lost in the daybreak shall return no more! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ODE. SITTING AND DRINKING IN THE CHAIR ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chear up my mates, the wind does fairly blow Last Line: Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot mee. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean ODE: THE MEDITERRANEAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thee the northman by his beached galley Last Line: Solace of mortals. Variant Title(s): Ode: 5 Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea ODES I, 14. THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ship! New billows sweep thee out Last Line: That gird those glittering cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now after the ship had left the stream of the river oceanus Last Line: And it liketh me not twice to tell a plain-told tale Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the dawn arose from her couch, and from the side of the lordly tithonus Last Line: That so it might soon release him from hksi weary travail, overshadowing his eyelids Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses OF SEALS AND OUR SMILES, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT Poem Source First Line: The last time they did any harm to anyone was 1000's of years ago Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OFF CAPE SANTO GARCIA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea! Thy waves are cold and dark Last Line: But not a faithless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Sea; Weariness; Ocean; Fatigue OFF FIRE ISLAND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With snapping flag against the gray Last Line: The flashing bluefish leaps -- for life! Subject(s): Fire Island; New York City - Colonial Period; Sea; Ocean OFF MESOLONGI, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lights of mesolongi gleam Last Line: To gaze, and pass. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece; Ocean OFF RIVIERE DU LOUP, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O ship incoming from the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Sea OFF SHORE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the might of the summer is most on the sea Last Line: But thou art the god, and thy kingdom is heaven, and thy shrine is the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sea; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean OFF SHORE, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rock, little boat, beneath the quiet sky Subject(s): Sea OGIER THE DANE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OH! THE IMMENSE, ILLIMITABLE DELIGHT, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OILY WEATHER, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea desires deep dulls Last Line: Throbbing ships scorn it Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD ANCHOR CHANTY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a long heavy heave, my very famous men Last Line: (bring home!) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD COMMODORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Od's blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk Last Line: "shall kill, till they grapple him at sea" Subject(s): Death;sailing & Sailors;sea; "dead, The;ocean; OLD DEEP SING-SONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old deep sing-song of the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD FIGUREHEAD CARVER, by H. A. CODY Poem Source First Line: I have done my bit of carving Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping OLD IRONSIDES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Last Line: The lightning and the gale! Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America OLD OCEAN WAS / INFINITY OF AGES ERE WE BREATED, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OLD QUARTERMASTER, by GORDON GRANT Poem Source First Line: Next week they're goin' to lay me off Subject(s): Sea OLD SAILORS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of old sailors, the song you would hear Subject(s): Sea OLD SEA WOLF, by JUAN B. DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Old sea wolf, bold captain Last Line: Between two immensities, %ocean and sky! Subject(s): Courage; Sailors And Sailing; Sea OLD SHIP RIGGERS, by H. A. CODY Poem Source First Line: Yes, we did a heap of riggin' Subject(s): Sea ON A FELLUCA ONE EVENING IN THE AEGEAN, A FELICIFIC RITE IS PERFORMED, by MARK WHITE Poem Source First Line: He claimed to be a simple fellah from syria Last Line: With the frenetic f#s of a flock of bacchanalian fringillids Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Religion; Syria ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ON A JANUARY BEACH, by NORMA R. WETHERED Poem Text First Line: Sea gulls walking on a january beach Last Line: Serene and solemnic the ocean rolls by. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON A POEM CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little sheaf of words I speed Last Line: And lifted on celestial wings. Subject(s): Sea Voyages ON A SHIPMATE, PERO MONIZ, DYING AT SEA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My years on earth were short, but long for me Last Line: Fierce seas that dark the abyssinian shore, %far from the happy homeland I adore Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Sea ON AN AUGUST DAY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Ocean waves rush in Subject(s): Sea ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea Last Line: Himself our bravest crown. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried Last Line: For those beneath the wave! Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) ON HIS MISTRESS CROSSING THE SEA, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fair saint, may not the sea and wind Last Line: Whilst both contribute to your own undoing. Variant Title(s): To His Mistress Going To Sea Subject(s): Sea Voyages ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached a green, green island Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day ON RETURN FROM THE SHORE, by HELEN IFFLA BAY Poem Text First Line: Surely he made his sea for solitude Last Line: Perhaps it was for this he made his sea. Subject(s): Creation; God; Sea; Ocean ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by CHARLES FITZ-GEFFREY Poem Source First Line: You, whose exploits the world itself admired Subject(s): Sea ON SUCH A NIGHT, by THOMAS T. JOHNSTON Poem Source Subject(s): Sea ON THE BEACH IN NOVEMBER, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's ideal, that somewhere out of sight Subject(s): Sea ON THE CAPTURE OF THE GUERRIERE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long the tyrant of our coast Last Line: Dacre and the guerriere! Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; English Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean ON THE CLIFFS, SELS., by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down drops the red sun; through the gloaming Subject(s): Sea ON THE DEATH OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, A PHYSICIAN, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Children of iapetus, who inhabit the pendulous ord of earth Last Line: And may you walk forever in the elysian fields among the blessed Subject(s): Gostlin, John (d. 1626); Sea ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE (FROM NEW YORK), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Now in the red and opalescent sun Last Line: Against the wind and sun that struggle, madly Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Travel ON THE LATE ROYAL SLOOP-OF-WAR GENERAL MONK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the washington ship by the english was beat Last Line: "all her guns should be wooden -- to suit with his head." Subject(s): American Revolution; General Monk (ship); Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Twitcher, Jemmy; American Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the rough main with flowing sheet Last Line: They trembled and ador'd. Variant Title(s): Bonhomme Richard And Serapis Subject(s): American Revolution; Bon Homme Richard (ship); Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE MOTTO OF A SEAL, 'IF I LOSE THEE, I AM LOST', by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Wafted o'er a treacherous sea Last Line: "for, ""if I lose thee, I am lost." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE NAVAL ATTACK NEAR BALTIMORE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the old ocean advanced from the bay Last Line: And the sight, we expect, will be not very new %when they meet us again, with our tow-row-dow Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ON THE OCEAN FLOOR, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now more and more on my concern Last Line: On the ocean floor as the foraminifera die Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Sea ON THE SALT SEA, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salt begets thirst; then well may rivers be Last Line: Salt as it is, all swallowed by the sea. Subject(s): Salt; Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will call her when she comes to me Last Line: As I sail away on the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The splendor [or, pathway] of the sinking moon Last Line: But the love in thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SEA WALL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit upon the old sea wall Last Line: The ocean's dear deceit! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ON THE SHORE, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: A glow of crimson glory floods the west Last Line: Where deeds like stars may glow. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE SHORE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angry sunset fades from out the west Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Sea ON THE SINKING OF THE VICTORIA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has nelson heard?' Last Line: "o, nobly died! O glorious englishmen!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea Battles; Naval Warfare ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ON THE VERGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here begins the sea that ends not till the Last Line: From the shore that hath no shore beyond it set in all the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ON THE VICTORY OBTAINED BY ADMIRAL BLAKE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now does spain's fleet her spacious wings unfold Last Line: And tells the world, how much to you it owes. Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Sea Battles; Naval Warfare ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know! Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ON THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat drifts in the heart of heat Last Line: Oh! Fly from the enchanted sea! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ON THE WHALES OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT, by HILLEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: They were there once Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism ONE BY ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 34, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin Last Line: Vegetables, seaweed, herbs: the foam of your dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea ONE NIGHT IF STORM, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea ONE RETURNS TO THE SELF AS IF TO AN OLD HOUSE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In its theater of black walls Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea ONE THAT'S ON THE SEA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With gallant sail and streamer gay Last Line: The home of him that's on the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ONLY THE SEA MIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Full moon %void only Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Nothingness; Sea OPEN OCEAN, by ROBERT L. WOLFE Poem Text First Line: We two who found the haven snug and safe Last Line: To rank this harbor-happiness enough. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OPEN SEA, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We say the sea is lonely; better say Last Line: For each creature lost since the start at sea %and give thanks it was not I, nor yet one close to me Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sea OPIUM CLIPPERS, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Where are the opium ships Subject(s): Sea ORCA, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: Beastblack under a fin torpedo-swift Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ORCA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-lions loafed in the swinging tide in the inlet, long fluent creatures Last Line: Experiment, that has run wild, and ought to be stopped Subject(s): Cruelty; War; Sea; Ocean ORDINARY SONGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch Last Line: On the shard a reclining naked woman kissed by a god Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Greece; Greeks ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean OTHELLO, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea OTHER LIFE, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know in my other life I am a whale Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OUR FALL WAS INTO FORGETFULNESS, by JAMES BAKER HALL Poem Source First Line: We see them only when they surface Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where of old was heard Last Line: "our watterson!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Honor; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips OUT FROM GLOUCESTER, by HELEN TROTT Poem Source First Line: Out where the white waves whisper Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea OUT OF THE DEEP, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: At the hour when the stars from the eastern spaces are peering Last Line: The soul from self that again unto god goes back. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean OUT OF THE DEPTHS', by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost! Lost! Lost! Last Line: "in the dark — in the storm — ""our father"" is nigh" Subject(s): Sea; Rescues; God OUTWARD BOUND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square Last Line: Ionian isles are thine, and all the fairy shores! Subject(s): Mysticism; Sea Voyages; Tanzania; Zanzibar OUTWARD BOUND, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the unknown deep Last Line: Outward bound. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sea Voyages OUTWARDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over the dim blue rim of the sea Subject(s): Sea OVER ALL THE FACE OF EARTH MAIN OCEAN FLOWED, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Creation; Sea OVER THE BIER OF THE WORDLING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, what can I say Last Line: And the falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls OVER THE SEA, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad eyes! Why are ye steadfastly gazing Last Line: Over the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OVID IN PONTUS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the banished euxine (a black doom!) Last Line: Have sought to find it on that desert beach. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Black Sea; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OXWICH BAY, GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night hung heavy, black and chill Last Line: Trailing like some winged bird. Subject(s): Battleships; Sea; Wales; War; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen PADDY DOYLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To my %ay and we'll furl Subject(s): Sea PAGE, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: Here is the page, half darkness, half silence, hoping Last Line: Death bothers its margins like gulls along some shore Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Writing And Writers PAINTER, SELS., by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer has done her work; she, yet lingering Subject(s): Sea PARTING AT MORNING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the cape of a sudden came the sea Last Line: And the need of a world of men for me. Variant Title(s): Parting And Meeting Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; Separation; Isolation; Ocean PASA THALASSA THALASSA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone - faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Last Line: Down where he lies to-night, silent, and under the storms. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PASSAGE, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Approaching the walvis ridge and the tropic Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in doubt, in weariness, in woe" Last Line: Was rolling o'er their head Subject(s): Egypt;jews;moses;red Sea; Judaism PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heat o'erlabour'd and the length of way Last Line: "shout, israel, for the lord hath triumphed!" Subject(s): Red Sea PASSAGE STEAMER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the decks they take beef tea Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Sea PASSENGER SHANTY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ship weighed twenty thousand ton Last Line: No doubt. But it's dull beyond belief. %inky-pinky-parlez vous Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Sea Voyages PASSING OF DOLPHINS, by DAVID B. DE LEEUW Poem Source First Line: Bluegreen bodies moving sleekly in the ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PASSING TIME, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: If I had a boat Last Line: How I prefer a chosen end: me upon my pony on my boat Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel PAST AND PRESENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I who have seen a tiny cloud Last Line: Scratched by a little pin or thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea Voyages PAST DAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and gone, the days we had together Last Line: Cliffs and downs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Roundels; Sea; Ocean PATHS ACROSS THE SEA, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the silver crest of the ocean's breast Last Line: On our path to the fairy moon. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PATROLING BARNEGAT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running Last Line: That savage trinity warily watching. Variant Title(s): Patrolling Barnegat Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Sea; Storms; Ocean PAUL DO MAR, by K. V. SKENE Poem Source First Line: Off shore Last Line: The salt on your lips, taste %the years Subject(s): Sea; Seashore PAUL JONES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An american frigate from baltimore came Last Line: "we'll drink to brave paul jones, who, with sword in hand, / shone foremost in action, and gave us c Subject(s): "jones, John Paul (1747-1792);sea Battles;" Naval Warfare PAUL JONES' VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An american frigate, a frigate of fame Last Line: The loss of her sons in the ocean so deep. %hurrah! Hurrah! Our country for ever, hurrah! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bon Homme Richard (ship); Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Navy - United States; Sea Battles PEACOCK STUNG BY THE HORNET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When o'er the blue and trackless deep Last Line: For every true columbian tar, %will hail him hero of the wa r Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 PEBBLES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the clerk of the weather insist Last Line: Distilled in wholesome dew named rosmarine. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PEDRO IS THE WHEN AND THE HOW, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To tell us that it is forbidden %to be happy Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PENELOPE JOANNA, by BONNIE JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Once a year joanna's husband leaves her Last Line: Oh where has he gone, his poor wife cried, %my little hibiscus, my delicate boy-- Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Sea PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PERFECTIONIST ON THE BEACH, by DEBORAH GOTTLIEB GARRISON Poem Source First Line: Eighty-six degrees, high tide Last Line: The hard-packed sand and dove %into a creamy wave Subject(s): Perfection; Sea PERILOUS LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Sea PESCADERO PEBBLES, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crash of the crystal surf all night on the wind-wild beaches Last Line: And salt tears wet them and leave them aglow by the mad waves singing. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PETIT MANAN, by ROBERT FARNSWORTH Poem Source First Line: I know no fitting prayer for the margins Last Line: The tideline, fixed by the moon's %indifferent aim across the water Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sea; Water PHANTOM SHIP, by JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST Poem Source First Line: We stood on the haunted island Subject(s): Sea PHENOMENOLOGY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These weeks wide as a wave and white Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Drowning; Ocean PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Man that is born of a woman Last Line: Down like a small flying gib Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean PICTURES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some likes pictures o' women,' said bill, 'an' some likes 'orses best' Last Line: "you paint me a ship as is like a ship . . . An' that'll do for me!'" Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 1. EVENING TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By ocean's pallid strand Last Line: Smiling, illumed by the moon. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 10. THE OCEAN'S SPECTRE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I upon the ship's edge was lying Last Line: "why, doctor, are you mad?" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 11. PURIFICATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remain thou in thy ocean-depths Last Line: And my rescued spirit rejoices. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 12. PEACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the heavens there stood the sun Last Line: "praised be jesus christ!" Subject(s): Holidays; Sea Voyages; Thanksgiving PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 3. THE NIGHT ON THE STRAND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starless and cold is the night Last Line: "and a cough that proves quite eternal." Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 4. POSEIDON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's bright rays were playing Last Line: And the silly daughters of nereus. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 6. DECLARATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward glimmering came the evening Last Line: "agnes, I love thee!" Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 7. IN THE CABIN AT NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea its pearls possesseth Last Line: In calm and radiant but excessive love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sea; Tears; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 8. STORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest is raging Last Line: Over the wide and tempest-toss'd sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 9. CALM AT SEA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm at sea! His beams all radiant Last Line: In his bill, again mounts upward. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 1. SEA SALUTATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thalatta! Thalatta! Last Line: Thalatta! Thalatta! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 10. SEA-SICKNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark-grey clouds of the afternoon Last Line: For thou art terra firma at least! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sickness; Illness PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 11. IN HARBOUR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who arrives safe in harbour Last Line: Whirleth the whole of the drunken world. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 2. THUNDERSTORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily lies on the ocean the storm Last Line: "and thou, knight of the ring, polydeuces!" Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 4. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauteous sun Last Line: "and a face all wither'd and dry." Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 5. THE SONG OF THE OCEANIDES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows of evening o'er ocean are falling Last Line: And long I sat in the darkness, with weeping. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 7. QUESTIONS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the sea, by the desert night-cover'd sea Last Line: And a fool is awaiting an answer. Subject(s): Riddles; Sea; Youth; Ocean PIG MOON, TURTLE MOON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: The moon's horns stick Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PILOT, by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream Subject(s): Sea PINE TO THE MARINER, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O man of little wit Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Sea PIRATE TREASURE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain kidd was a pirate bold Last Line: And a lot of sardine cans. Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean PIRATES OF PENANCE, by SHAWN STURGEON Poem Source First Line: Well, often, standing upon the poop-deck Last Line: But that wavy hair, those bedazzling eyes! Subject(s): Boats; Sea PITY THE SEA, by NOLANNE O'HAIR Poem Text First Line: Pity not the little pines upon these sun-white dunes Last Line: Clasping and unclasping impotent hands. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PLAINT OF THE PINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a pine that shot its solemn bole Last Line: "with a fear of the ocean, that knoweth not rest." Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Nightmares; Ocean PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, I cannot plead my love of thee Last Line: The shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Cannot Plead Subject(s): God; Love; Sea; Ocean PLEASANT SEA! / EARTH HAS NOT A PLAIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea PLUM ISLAND, by NATHANIEL BELLOWS Poem Source First Line: Not really an island it is connected to mainland by marsh Last Line: Wear the deep bruise of sweet pitted fruit the crop which %once flourished here plentiful spoiling o Subject(s): Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Islands; Sea PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by EMILY N. HOXIE Poem Text First Line: I little thought to see red sails Last Line: In devon hills at dawning. Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by ERNEST RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what know they of harbours Last Line: Who toss not on the sea! Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sea; Ocean POEM AS CARAVANSARY ERECTED TO ACCOMMODATE A CARAVAN OF SOUVENIRS, by ELISABETH BORCHERS Poem Source First Line: Here disembarked to rest from torment and drudgery Last Line: Of a never ending journey and vanishing happiness Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel POEM IN THE WAVE, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Beams of sunlight %penetrate clouds Last Line: Kaleidoscope of fascinations %from the sea Subject(s): High School Students; Light; Sea; Teenagers; Waves POEM TO SHOW THE TROUBLE THAT BEFELL HIM, by THOMAS PRYS Poem Source First Line: I followed, o splendid season Last Line: Before I will pillage or part %buy a ship, I'll be a shepherd Variant Title(s): Trouble At Se Subject(s): Sea; Travel POEMS IN THE SEA, by MEDDIE MAZE LEBOLD Poem Text First Line: You say there are no poems in the sea Last Line: Your silver ship has cut across my dream. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean POET'S OBLIGATION, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To whomever is not listening to the sea Last Line: Will make their answer to the shuttered heart Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sea POETIC EPIGRAMS: 19. BY THE SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White on each mounded wave Last Line: As on a nameless grave. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean POINT SHIRLEY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Boston; Sea; Ocean POINT SHIRLEY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Last Line: Against both bar and tower the black sea runs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Boston; Sea POOR JACK, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see Last Line: Will look out a good berth for poor jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean POOR OLD JOE (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old joe is dead, and gone to hell Subject(s): Sea PORT ADMIRAL, by FREDERICK MARRYAT Poem Source First Line: Twas at the landing-place that's just below mount wyse Subject(s): Sea PORT OF MANY SHIPS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's a sunny pleasant anchorage, is kingdom come Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea PORT, THIS PORT OF VALPARAISO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Toward the implacable sea Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea Last Line: That is what it seems to be. Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty PORTOLA CANNERY POEM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Bells ring furiously Last Line: In a medieval drawing Subject(s): Marine Animals; Poetry And Poets; Sea PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR, by STEPHANIE DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: For breakfast she drank three of his canned margaritas with fresh Last Line: Neck. His stays work into her ribs, making her breathless Subject(s): Sea Monsters POSEIDON'S BRIDE, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Poseidon comes riding, riding, riding, over the ocean to me Last Line: Come with poseidon for me. Subject(s): Atlantis; Brides; Mythology - Classical; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean POSEIDON'S LAW, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the robust and brass-bound man commissioned first for sea Subject(s): Sea PRAYER AT SEA AFTER VICTORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through evening's bright repose Last Line: Oh! To the banner and the shrine be true! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Prayer; Sea Battles; Victory; Naval Warfare PRAYER TO THE OCEAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wilt thou yield, great ocean, to thy lover Last Line: Wilt thou yield up to me? Subject(s): God; Sea; Ocean PRIDE'S CROSSING, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the railroad meets the sea Subject(s): Railroads; Sea; Togetherness; Railways; Trains; Ocean PROEM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Tells the cumbrous page historic how the missions rose / and fell Last Line: As loved tagus or as darro from granada's rugged steep. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; History; Missions & Missionaries; Sea Voyages; Historians PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous' Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean PROGRESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a wave we catch at Last Line: To voyage the universe? Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Sea; Universe; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Ocean PROMETHEUS UNBOUND: THE RED SEA, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the scarlet plain and the holy place Last Line: With soft warm drafts from the gentle stream. Subject(s): Red Sea PROVIDENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was far from the sea's voice and vastness Last Line: Is not without a meaning for mankind. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Memory; Sea; Human Race; Ocean PSALM 104, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Unnamable god, you are fathomless Subject(s): Religion; Sea PSALM 77, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: To thee my crying call Last Line: And to glad pasturs brought Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PSALM 77, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Let children hear the mighty deeds Subject(s): Sea PSALMS OF THE SEA: THE CONVERT, by EVERETT BOSTON Poem Text First Line: The lord is my shepherd on the meadows of the sea Last Line: In the short leisure and simple words of the sea. Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean PUNGENT EVENING, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Source First Line: In the air that staggers between seashells Last Line: And the burning smell of grilled crabs, %and this wet shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Night; Sea; Smells PUTTING TO SEA, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, in the dark, has cast the harbor-chain? Last Line: And learn, with joy, the gulf, the vast, the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PUTTING TO SEA, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who, in the dark, has cast the harbor-chain? Last Line: And learn, with joy, the gulf, the vast, the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea QE2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY., by RITA DOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Panel of gray silk. Liquefied ashes. Dingy percale tugged over Last Line: Well, I'd get off if I knew where to go Subject(s): Sea Voyages QUA CURSUM VENTUS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay Last Line: At last, at last, unite them there! Variant Title(s): Becalmed At Eve Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean QUAKER GRAVEYARD IN NANTUCKET, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brackish reach of shoal off madaket Last Line: The lord survives the rainbow of his will Subject(s): Sea; Whales QUATORZAINS: 8. TO SILENCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge, viewless ocean into which we cast Last Line: And to our ears upon the wind are swung. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Silence; Ocean QUATRAIN, by ALCUIN Poem Text First Line: The sea is the road of the bold Last Line: And fountain of the rains. Alternate Author Name(s): Flaccus+(1); Albinus Subject(s): Sea; Ocean QUESTIONS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the sea, by the waste, nocturnal sea Subject(s): Sea QUIA MULTUM AMAVIT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee Last Line: 18 brumaire, an 78. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Paradise; Ocean RAPTURE, by GEOFF PETERSON Poem Source First Line: At death of makin-meang Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters RAVEN BOAT, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: The rapids are very scary Last Line: When they awaited the schooner Subject(s): Alaska; Boats; Native Americans; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages RECOMPENSE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: I never have had a look at the sea Last Line: And of seas, they are a part. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean RECOMPENSE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Where the green fir-tips meet the sapphire sky Last Line: For you can sing. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages RECOURSE OF DRIFTING, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Year after year, somehow you never interrupted me Last Line: Washing up against me Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Sea; Tragedy RED CANOE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: Now that he had grown older lame and stiff Last Line: I have tumbled down and down toward that blue distance %if nothing can hold me on the mountain it wi Subject(s): Mountains; Sea RED SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When moses wuz leadin' the israelites, red sea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Red Sea RED SEA,' INDEED! TALK NOT TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: What wine in the fatigue! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1642; Poem: 168 Subject(s): Red Sea RED SNAILS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Mere pin points on the horizon Last Line: Red sails when the journey's done! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sun; Seamen; Sails; Ocean REEFING TOPSAILS, by WALTER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Three hand-spike raps on the forward hatch Subject(s): Sea; Storms REINCARNATION, by KAY BOYLE Poem Source First Line: There is death in the house Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters REMEMBERING THE SEA ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it is time for candor Subject(s): Candor; Environment; Sea Monsters REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are tales to be told of the land and the sea Last Line: The soul's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Sea Voyages; Retribution; Eternity; After Life REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf Last Line: I shall never know! Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end with outstretched hands Last Line: Lord of eternal rest! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Ocean RESCUE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and wave and the swinging rope Last Line: But not of you. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean RESIGNATION: PART 1: SEASCAPE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But though full noble is my theme Last Line: Dead bards stench every coast. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean RESPITE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty conflict, which we call existence Last Line: Grant us a respite in the grave between. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Sea; Soul; Ocean REST AT THE MERCY HOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because nature doesn't specialize Last Line: A momentary rest. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips REST ERE AND LOOK DOWN ON THE TREMULOUS DEEP, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea RETROSPECT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In your arms was still delight Last Line: Mataiea, january 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands RETURN, by JOHN FORBES Poem Source First Line: I often dream about the ocean Last Line: & the sudden atmosphere of drama Subject(s): Sea; Seashore RETURN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body of her eyes Last Line: That brings you the sea. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Sea; Ocean RETURNING, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many profiles of death line my face Last Line: And finally we will be silent. Gracias Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea REUBEN RANZO (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O do you know old reuben ranzo? Subject(s): Sea RHYME-PROSE ON THE SEA, by MU HUA Poem Source First Line: Long ago, when emperor shun of kuei was still minister to yao of t'ang Last Line: Of all things and creatures, all species alive, %what does it possess, what does it not? Subject(s): Mythology - Chinese; Sea RIDDLES OF MERLIN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking / alone by the sea Last Line: "sunrise for west." Subject(s): Dreams; Riddles; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; Ocean RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: I shot the albatross Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun now rose upon the right: %out of the sea came he Last Line: Instead of the cross, the albatross %about my neck was hung Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There passed a weary time. Each throat %was parched, and glazed each eye Last Line: And every soul, it passed me by, %like the whizz of my cross-bow Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 4, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thee, ancient mariner! %I fear thy skinny hand! Last Line: The albatross fell off, and sank %like lead into the sea Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 5, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing Last Line: Quoth he, 'the man hath pennance done, %and pennance more will do' Variant Title(s): The Ancient Mariner Refreshed By Sleep And Rai Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 6, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But tell me, tell me! Speak again Last Line: He'll shrive my soul, he'll wash away %the albatross's blood Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 7, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This hermit good lives in that wood Last Line: A sadder and wiser man, %he rose the morrow morn Subject(s): Religion; Sea RIO GRANDE (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where are you going to, my pretty maid? Subject(s): Sea RIPTIDE, by HEIDY STEIDLMAYER Poem Source First Line: The sea gives rise Last Line: And come to nothing Subject(s): Sea RIVER AND SEA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the river that swept Last Line: "to those who have looked on the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Ocean RIVETS, by N. S. OLDS Poem Source First Line: My grandfather's hands were wise and hard Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Sea ROCK IN THE SEA, by HENRY AMES BLOOD Poem Source First Line: They say that yonder rock once towered Subject(s): Sea ROCKS, by NATALIE M. HANCOCK Poem Text First Line: Rocks - hoary with age - bearded with barnacles - crouching low Last Line: Is it the music of god, turning life's pages? Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Tides; Ocean; Granite; Rocks RODGERS & VICTORY: TIT FOR TAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John bull, who has for ten years past Last Line: And strike aloud the merry stave %of yankee doodle dandy Subject(s): American Revolution; Little Belt (ship); Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles ROGERS AND VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One night it was bout nine o'clock Last Line: Dey get it hot, as dey could sup, %hotter as french brandy Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; President (ship); Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles ROGUE WAVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This morning near my house, a wave swept up Last Line: Struck, lit only by a klieg-lamp's narrow gaze Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons; Grief; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Storms; Waves ROLL AND GO (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a ship - she sailed to spain Subject(s): Sea ROLL ON, THOU DEEP AND DARK BLUE OCEAN, ROLL, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Volvere, caeruleis fundoque carentibus undis Last Line: Qualis in aeternum labere volubilis aevum Subject(s): Sea ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come roll the cotton down, my boys Subject(s): Sea RONDEAU, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps Last Line: So soft, so true, with thee shall rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean RONDEL: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far have you come, my lady, from the town Last Line: Since I am sworn to live my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Sea; Woods; Ocean ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ROSES ON A BRIER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Where shall be no more sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea ROUGH SEA, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: Glaucus, look! At sea already splashing waves are swelling high Last Line: Sign of storm to come, and panic comes upon us suddenly. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ROUGH SEAS, THAT SPARE NOT ANY MAN, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ROUGHCHIN, THE PIRATE, by ARTHUR BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when I wake up I lie Subject(s): Sea ROUND CAPE HORN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ask any question in this town Subject(s): Sea ROVER'S SONG, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide Last Line: Hurrah, boys! Hurrah, boys! The rover is free! Subject(s): Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROYAL VICTORY OBTAINED AGAINST THE DUTCH FLEET, 1665, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let england, and ireland, and scotland rejoice Subject(s): Sea RUNAROUND SUE AND MISTER KIDD, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: On a calm sea everybody is a pilot Last Line: But the big ship plunged on into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Sea Pilots RUNAWAY CHORUS (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Subject(s): Sea SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou? Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing. Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean SAD STORY, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: The waves are not part of us. What sand they touch and overskim Last Line: This sand is a handful of forgetting, an eyeful of pain. Blooddrop of pain Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Sea SAFETY ON THE SHORE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the sea be calme? Trust to the shore Last Line: Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc't before. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAGA OF LEIF THE LUCKY, SELS., by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Source First Line: Leif was a man's name Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Leif Ericsson; Sea SAIDA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Your body, turning lightly in bed Last Line: A unicorn cutting his flesh on the coral Subject(s): Commuters; Sea; Ships And Shipping; Tourists; Travel SAIL AND OAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Womsn sails, man must row Subject(s): Sea SAIL-BOAT (BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI), by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: All day your snowy sails, rose marigold Last Line: With music of a magic ocean shell. Subject(s): Anchors; Flowers; Marigolds; Sea; Ocean SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SAILOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A sailor is blythe and bonny o Subject(s): Sea SAILOR AND INLAND FLOWER, by HAMISH MACLAREN Poem Source First Line: The stars never had any mystery for me Subject(s): Sea SAILOR LADDIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My love has been in london city Subject(s): Sea SAILOR MAN, by H. SEWALL BAILEY Poem Source First Line: He was one who followed Subject(s): Sea SAILOR'S APOLOGY FOR BOW-LEGS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's some is born with their legs straight Subject(s): Sea SAILOR'S DELIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How happy are we now the wind is abaft Subject(s): Sea SAILOR'S HARBOR, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts, like sailors becalmed in cape town harbor Subject(s): Sea SAILOR'S SONG, by HAZEL HARPER HARRIS Poem Source First Line: As I sail home to galveston Subject(s): Galveston, Texas; Sea SAILOR'S WARNING, by MICHAEL FITZGERALD PAGE Poem Source First Line: Now quietly falls the night whose crimson dawn Subject(s): Sea SAILS, by FLORENCE O'BRIEN Poem Text First Line: To fancy sails upon the seas Last Line: And bring my love to me. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SAILS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the growing haste of the world Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping SALCOMBE SEAMAN'S FLAUNT TO THE PROUD PIRATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A lofty ship from salcombe came Subject(s): Sea SALLY BROWN (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O sally brown of new york city Subject(s): Sea SALLY SIMKIN'S LAMENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What is that comes gliding in Last Line: To break off in the middle.' Subject(s): Sea; Sharks; Ocean SALT AND SUNNY DAYS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silent glory of the summer day! Last Line: And beats and blinds the following wind with spray! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SALT SEA, by KIM CHONGSAM Poem Source First Line: I am as old and outworn as my shoes Last Line: No fork of a road of death, either Subject(s): Sea SALT WATER STORY, by RICHARD HUGO Poet's Biography First Line: He loved his cabin: there Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SALT WATER STORY, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He loved his cabin: there Last Line: He is the one who waves Subject(s): Sea SALT WATER'S LURE, by VIRGINIA WAINWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I always lived beside the wave and spray Last Line: With boats and fog. Would life were otherwise. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Trees; Ocean SALTON SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds SALUD, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Salud, we called out every day Last Line: Of ourselves. Salud! Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine david, how a single Last Line: Though only for a visit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 1. THE GALE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky Last Line: His transient tragic destiny. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 2. THE TIDE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide makes music Last Line: With rustle of scales. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shalllow pools of water Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 1. GROUNDSWELL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy doleful clamour, hour on hour, and day on day Last Line: The muddy groundswell lifts and breaks and falls and slides away. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 2. SNOW AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters Last Line: In the winter evening. Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 3. NIGHT WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the night, wind of the long cool shadows Last Line: The night is cool and quiet and the wind has crept to the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 5. TIDE OF STORMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers Last Line: Night-winds shall brokenly whisper our bitter, tragic story. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 4. THE CALM, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning I saw three great ships Last Line: Becalmed on an infinite horizon. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAND CASTLE, by CONSTANCE ANDREA KEREMES Poem Source First Line: Sandra built a castle out of sand Subject(s): Sea SAND SCRIBBLINGS, SELS., by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boxes on the beach are empty Subject(s): Sea SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam SANDPIPER, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: Look at the little sandpiper Subject(s): Sea SANDPIPERS, by MARILYN LERCH Poem Source First Line: Sandpipers tango Last Line: On allegretto feet %between the bar lines Subject(s): Sea; Sea Monsters SANTIAGO, by THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER Poem Text First Line: In the stagnant pride of an outworn race Last Line: So the fight was won that our sampson planned! Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare SANTORINI MIST, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: The old say %it's moisture rolling in from the sea Last Line: To break calmly %over my muscular earth Subject(s): Mist; Santorini Island, Greece; Sea SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SAYLOR'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We seamen are the bonny boys Subject(s): Sea SCHOONER FLIGHT, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In idle august, while the sea soft Last Line: Shabine sang to you from the depths of the sea Subject(s): Sea Voyages; West Indies SCRIMSHAW, by NANCY ROXBURY KNUTSON Poem Source First Line: There's something wrong Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before our human dream (or terror) wove Last Line: Who is the sea, and who am I? The day %that follows my last agony shall say Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Sea; Violence SEA, by LLOYD FRANKENBERG Poem Source First Line: In the midmost of ocean Subject(s): Sea SEA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Few think of its going on %when we are inland Last Line: Nearer and nearer the doors banging shut far beyond our farms Subject(s): Boats; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing; Sea SEA, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: Sea is wild marble waiting a stonecutter's Subject(s): Sea SEA, by KIM TONGMYONG Poem Source First Line: I restore my youth Last Line: Who bring exotic dreams from afar; %my heart rises and falls like weeds Subject(s): Sea SEA, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Now I'll go %to the sea Last Line: Or the pure land Subject(s): Future Life; Prisons And Prisoners; Sea SEA, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, you are all unloving, loveless, you Last Line: Sea, you shadow of all things, now mock us to death with %your shadowing Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Sea SEA, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea called - I lay on the rocks and said Last Line: "come closer." Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: What you imagine is my voice, that rustling and complaint Last Line: And sit down and write Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel SEA, by KEN NOYLE Poem Source First Line: I have seen the sea in many moods Subject(s): Sea SEA, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: The sea is a hungry dog Last Line: So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores Subject(s): Sea SEA, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These forward waves, we feign they try Subject(s): Sea SEA, by YI SONGBU Poem Source First Line: The sea does not boast Last Line: The sea sinks blue blade into her breast Subject(s): Sea SEA (1), by SEKINE HIROSHI Poem Source First Line: Water definitely icy Last Line: I feel somewhat better now Subject(s): Sea SEA (2), by SEKINE HIROSHI Poem Source First Line: Walking along the arakawa's concrete embankment Last Line: No joke, this place is not the sea Subject(s): Sea SEA (3), by SEKINE HIROSHI Poem Source First Line: What's in the sea? She asked Last Line: What's in the sea? She asked Subject(s): Sea SEA - IN CALM, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look what immortal floods the sunset pours Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sea SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SEA AND THE HILLS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath desired the sea? - the sight of salt water unbounded Last Line: So and otherwise men desire their hill Subject(s): Sea SEA AND THE MIRROR (COMMENT ON SHAKESPEARE'S THE TEMPEST), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Sea SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: The memory that kissed a mountain girl %and ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii SEA BURIAL, by ROBINA MONKMAN Poem Source First Line: Lower him gently, gently, now Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea SEA BURIAL, by CHARLES PERDU Poem Source First Line: In motley garb the still survivors stand Last Line: Uniform in death as in life, %ready to be tipped with final taps %back into nature Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea SEA BURIAL, by ROBERTA STILES Poem Source First Line: At night, the heard defiant waters creep Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea SEA BURIAL FROM THE CRUISER REVE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is now water and air Last Line: Who was earth and fire Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea SEA BURIAL, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We drop our dead in the sea Last Line: Deeper down in the bottomless sea. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea SEA CALL, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand leagues of hill and plain Last Line: Days lonely as the sea, and salt as bitterest brine! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA CALLS, SELS., by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not clamorous Subject(s): Sea SEA CHANGE, by W. F. BOLTON Poem Source First Line: And now, and now, Last Line: And all sense finally ends Subject(s): Change; Sea SEA CHANTY, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother hates the sea Last Line: - thy mother's feet - was its answer Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Mothers; Sea SEA DIRGE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Sea SEA DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night a song comes flying Last Line: Singing of marvels in the body's dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SEA DREAMINGS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day a bird on wings as white as foam Last Line: My heart, is thy only resting place. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water SEA DREAMS, by JACK RICE Poem Text First Line: How can I stay here, a thousand miles from the sea? Last Line: Are green ... Like the green sea-foam! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DREAMS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A city clerk, but gently born and bred Last Line: Your own will be the sweeter,' and they slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA DRIFT, by EILEEN BERRY Poem Source First Line: They would sit, two or three of them as a rule, on the cast-iron seat Last Line: The slow pace of nature's change gave them some kind of peace Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea; Shrimp SEA FLIGHT, by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: The sea has heard your challenge. Here the wide Last Line: To conquer her unchallenged mystery. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA FRET, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: It's the wave of the sea in my blood, and I'll never be free Subject(s): Sea SEA GEMS, by EVON DESSINS Poem Text First Line: Blue turquoise waves Last Line: From the noon sun. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA GHOSTS, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the waters Last Line: "in the wind tonight!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is no hope Last Line: Along your ragged beach. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But we bring violets Last Line: Of your own white surf. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For you will come Last Line: And cherish and shelter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA GULLS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For one carved instant as they flew Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Sea SEA HARVEST, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea has furrows Last Line: Strange are mortal souls forevermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA HEALING, by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: I will not seek in a lowering tide Last Line: Of broken longing from a gull's white throat. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA HUNGER, by JOHN HANLON MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Wail of a waking wind in a far-flung ... Field Subject(s): Sea SEA IN BONDAGE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the long resilient surge o' ... Tide Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA IS HIS, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Almighty wisdom made the land Subject(s): Sea SEA JEALOUSY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cast not your looks upon the wan grey sea Last Line: Of droned sea song. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LAND, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Vexed with herself, the sea returning sighs Last Line: She gives herself to slumber and to dreams. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SEA LEVEL, by EDITH T. NEWCOMB Poem Text First Line: From misted mountain heights the road Last Line: To me. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LONGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall Last Line: Less than the sea-gulls calling to the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LOVE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tide be runnin' the great world over Last Line: Than the wind goin' over my hand. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LOVE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: O I am never lonely if I can smell the sea Last Line: In the dawn. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean SEA LULLABY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old moon is tarnished Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LULLABY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old moon is tarnished Last Line: Now in silence she lingers %beside him all night %to wash her long fingers %in silvery light Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea SEA LYRIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the seas to-night, love Last Line: Bright as the listening stars. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SEA LYRIC, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no music that man has heard Subject(s): Sea SEA MAGIC, by TILLA BARBARA SPERRY Poem Text First Line: I love the chant of the tossing sea Last Line: As it spreads its earth-free wings. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA MARVELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning more mysterious seems the sea Last Line: In the inglorious grapple after gold! Subject(s): Explorers; Sea; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean SEA MERCY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea dances in the morning Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA MIST, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The sea assumes her most mysterious dress Last Line: The ramparts and armadas of his race. Subject(s): Nothingness; Sea; Nihilism; Voids; Ocean SEA MUSIC, by LEONARD B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: I hear you wash and pound the lonely shore Last Line: Move me to feel the chords that are the sea's. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA NEARNESS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me lie in an unremembered place Last Line: The sound of wheeling gulls and waves at play. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA NURTURED, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: Watchers beside sea water wear a calm Last Line: They hold strange concourse with immensity! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA OF CRISIS, by TOMAS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: All this happens at the llanquihue soda fountain Last Line: A never-ending, cruel dusk %was cloaking concepcion Subject(s): Crisis Centers; Sea SEA OF SILENCE, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: The sea of silence blurts out secrets Last Line: The world that is in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Sea SEA OTTER SURVIVAL ASSURED', by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA PICTURES, SELS., by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Sea SEA PICTURES: 1. MORNING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun has pierced the mist Last Line: Browned by the salt air and the sun. Subject(s): Morning; Sea; Ocean SEA PICTURES: 2. EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the thickening twilight presses down Last Line: Wraps in a shroud the dying light. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean SEA PIECE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime is thy prospect, thou proud-rolling ocean Last Line: The power that can hush or arouse thee at will. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA PIECE BY MOONLIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to mark the softened ray Last Line: Gild again the lovely scene. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean SEA QUATRAINS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Too fast the silly white-caps run Last Line: Driven before the gale. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA REST, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from 'where the roses rest' Last Line: By the ever restless sea? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA REVERIE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange sea! Why is it that you never rest? Last Line: Flow and ebb, ebb and flow with thy own unrest. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA SHINES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shines. Wind-raked, the waters run tight Last Line: Of what abundance, on what hammered shore Subject(s): Sea SEA SHORE SHANTY, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Hermit crabs and cranberry plants Subject(s): Sea SEA SIMILIZED TO MEADOWS AND PASTURES, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The waves, like ridges of plow'd land, are high Last Line: But quickly run for shelter to a tree: %so ships at anchor lie upon the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Fields; Sea SEA SLUMBER-SONG, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea birds are asleep Last Line: "good-night!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat to the waves go free Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean SEA SONG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SONG, by HENRY MILSTEAD Poem Text First Line: The sea is a blue-backed stallion Last Line: My cares with a coral comb. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SPEAKS, by KATIE LOUCHHEIM Poem Source First Line: I am angry, not furious, just angry Subject(s): Sea SEA STORY, by CLARINDA HARRISS LOTT Poem Source First Line: I find it hard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that november off tehuantepec Last Line: Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that november off tehuantepec Last Line: And heaven rolled as one and from the two %came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue Subject(s): Sea SEA SWEPT IN WITH MOAN AND FOAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea SEA SYMPHONY, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean, eternal mother of the free! Subject(s): Sea SEA THRIFT & GORSE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sea is not the most extravagant Subject(s): Sea; Names; Ocean SEA THUNDER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green water cover me Last Line: And let me sleep. Subject(s): Sea; Thunder; Ocean SEA TOSSES AND FOAMS TO FIND, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SEA TOWN, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a salt steep-cobbled town Subject(s): Sea SEA TURTLE, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Writing news of her nest to foragers Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Near st. Augustine there is a shore of rocks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Before me is a sea turtle Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by JAN GOODLOE Poem Source First Line: On the summer beaches of trinidad Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by EDWARD P. WILLEY Poem Source First Line: Centuries packed into something indifferent Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA VOICES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wintry sea Last Line: Claim me evermore. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SEA VOICES, by CHARLES A. FOX Poem Source First Line: Art thou the voice of god, thou tremulous sea Subject(s): Sea SEA VOICES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, moaning sea; what tale have Last Line: I wail, I beat, I thunder, evermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA VOYAGE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Re-plyed, extorted, oft transposed, and fleeting, Last Line: We sum in port her banquet of degrees Subject(s): Sea Voyages SEA WASHES SAND SCOURS SEA, by THOM VANDER VEN Poem Source First Line: Walking the shore taht day, each reaches down Last Line: The day does not diminish other days Subject(s): Sea; Walking SEA WATER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard about the boy who didn't feel Last Line: Sweeps over the gunwale, and all hands go down Subject(s): Sea SEA WAVE, by MABEL W. S. CALL Poem Text First Line: A little wave mermaid Last Line: Like a white fern. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Ocean SEA WIND, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And all the books are read Last Line: But, o my heart, hear thou, hear thou the sailors' song! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA WORDS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love sea words Subject(s): Sea SEA'S INFLUENCE, by WILLIAM EDWARD HUNT Poem Source First Line: The brine is in our blood from days of yore Subject(s): Sea SEA'S VOICE, by WILLIAM PRESCOTT FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Around the rocky headlands, far and near Subject(s): Sea SEA, FALSE PHILOSOPHY (1), by LAURA RIDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Foremost of false philosophies, / the sea harangues the daft Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA, FALSE PHILOSOPHY (1), by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foremost of false philosophies, %the sea harangues the daft Last Line: And scatter to a watery zero %as the last rash prophecy is spoken Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Sea SEA-BIRDS, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the northern ocean in vast whirls Subject(s): Sea SEA-BREEZE MOANS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SEA-CAPTAIN, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am in love with the sea, but I do not trust Subject(s): Sea SEA-CHANGE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-CHANGE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Last Line: And coming the proud over all o' the birds o' the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea SEA-CHILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel Last Line: And a soft berth and a smooth course till the long trip's ended. Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Nature; Sea; Ocean SEA-DIRGE, by THOMAS SCOTT Poem Source First Line: I found him drowned on the rock that night Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Tom Subject(s): Sea SEA-DISTANCES, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His native sea-washed isle Subject(s): Sea SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SEA-FIGHT AT SLUYS, JUNE 24, 1340, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Source First Line: Listen, and the battle I shall begin Subject(s): Sea SEA-GLIMPSE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High tide, and the year at the ebb Subject(s): Sea SEA-GULL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull Last Line: Could you explain it to your she-gull? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea Gulls SEA-HAWK, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot nest of the sea-hawk Last Line: At the eye of a sea-hawk, %a blaze of grandeur, permanence of the impersonal Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Sea SEA-HOARDINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is open again and sea flows in Last Line: And how to hope, in the darkest deeps of thinking. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Moon; Sea; Ocean SEA-KING, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Source First Line: From out his castle on the sand Subject(s): Sea SEA-MAGIC; TO R.I., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart faints in me for the distant sea Last Line: Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ingpen, Roger; Sea; Ocean SEA-MAIDEN, by JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST Poem Source First Line: There was a lily and rose sea-maiden Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Sea SEA-NURTURED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gay sea-plants fammiliar were to her Subject(s): Sea SEA-PICTURES; FAR NIENTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft languors on the bosom of the deep Last Line: Between the day and me, and end it all. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Sea; Sun; Optimism; Ocean SEA-PICTURES; OFF THE HAVEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up stole a fog, a chill and ghastly thing Last Line: Lay green and glad beyond the waters gray. Subject(s): Fog; Night; Sea; Soul; Haze; Bedtime; Ocean SEA-RUCK, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Washback of the waters, swirl of time Subject(s): Sea SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA-SHORE, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes of foam are flown from the ebb Subject(s): Sea SEA-SONG, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND BAKER Poem Text First Line: Up and away! For the east wind is blowing Last Line: Are going before us to welcome us home. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-SPELL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How oft the strange magnetic glamour of ... Sea Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea SEA-VOYAGE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To what dark purpose was the will employed Subject(s): Sea SEA-WASH, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore so cold, o day Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea SEA-WASH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-wash never ends Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-WASH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-wash never ends Last Line: The sea-wash repeats, repeats Subject(s): Sea SEA-WATCHING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grey waters, vast %as an area of prayer Last Line: My watching from praying Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Sea SEA-WEED RISES, SUNSET-RED, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SEADRIFT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands Last Line: What if it were her lover? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAFARER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing my own true story, tell my travels Last Line: That he has raised us up, the prince of glory, %lord withoutend, to all eternity Subject(s): Sea SEAFARER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A song I sing of my sea-adventure, Subject(s): Sea SEAFARER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I can sing of myself a true song, of my voyages telling Subject(s): Sea SEAFARER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea will wash in Last Line: Without me nothing laughs Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAFARER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea will wash in Last Line: It is I! I who am the rocks! %without me nothing laughs Subject(s): Sea SEAFARERS, by GEORG HEYM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the brows of countries, worthy of crowns Last Line: Like a sweet-voiced dream sounding the depths of the soul Subject(s): Sea Voyages SEAGULLS BESIDE FERRY BOAT, by BECKMAN. JOSHUA Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea Gulls SEALED ORDERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bear sealed orders on life's weltered sea Last Line: Lie, known and very near. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Ocean SEALS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: For months desperate for lemons and a passage Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Last Line: Of guns punched dark holes in the sky Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN THE INNER HARBOR, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ducks, at first, except they didn't Last Line: Needing a place to spit and plan %the rescue of children's children Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEAMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was a fellow brown of hue Subject(s): Sea SEAMAN'S COMPASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A dainty new ditty composed and penned Subject(s): Sea SEAMAN'S HAPPY RETURN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When sol did cast no light Subject(s): Sea SEAMAN'S REPLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark, hark, I hear the trumpet sound; it calleth me to come away Subject(s): Sea SEAMUSIC, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word in the deep mind swimming, goldfish word Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels Last Line: And when it gets dark he will remember something %strongly worded to say on the subject Subject(s): Sea SEASCAPE, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are some days the happy ocean lies Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are some days the happy ocean lies Last Line: While, above them, that harp assumes their sighs Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Sea SEASHELL, by SANDRA OLSON LIATSOS Poem Source First Line: This seashell is an ocean cove Last Line: Of the sea are really true Subject(s): Sea SEASHORE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard or seemed to hear the chiding sea Last Line: To distant men, who must go there, or die. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASIDE SONG: 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop down below the orbed sea Last Line: On the deck I see him stand! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Sea; Love; Ocean SEASIDE SONG: 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is down into his bower Last Line: And whisper all her dreams to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Serenade Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Love; Ocean; Separation; Isolation SEASIDE THOUGHTS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, sublime, and glorious Last Line: What must thy creator be? Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASONG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I cut the balls off the tiger Last Line: Death is a matter of money.' Subject(s): Death; Masculinity (psychology); Sea SEATOWN, by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN First Line: Sanctuary of sorts for the herons all day yesterday Last Line: To negotiate the eight kilometers from this to open water Subject(s): Sea; Towns SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE THIRD CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my chair at sea Last Line: As they go walking by. Subject(s): Chairs; Food & Eating; Sea; Tea; Ocean SEAWARD, by ANTHONY WRYNN Poem Text First Line: I will ride on a white stallion Last Line: O death. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAWEED, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When descends on the atlantic Last Line: Household words, no more depart. Variant Title(s): The Equinox Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Seaweed; Storms; Ocean SEBASTOPOL (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The crimean war is over now Subject(s): Sea SECOND OF NOVEMBER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was one november - the second day Subject(s): Sea SECRET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the sea deepens Last Line: You are as blindness descends Subject(s): Sea SECRET OF THE DEEPS, by SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sailed by the old world's tideways Subject(s): Sea SECRET OF THE SEA, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Who knows the mighty secret Subject(s): Sea SECRETS OF THE DEEP, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: Slick, flaccid, glistening in jackets of fat Last Line: Mere sea-wrack scraped hollow, the only good %they'll ever know Subject(s): Lobsters; Sea; Secrets SELKIE, by KATHLEEN AGUERO Poem Source First Line: It's the salt in the air Last Line: I long to sing again, but my own voice frightens me Subject(s): Sea; Singing And Singers; Water SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SENSE OF VASTNESS, WHEN AT NIGHT, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Sea SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers SERENADE TO A CORNISH FOX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I sailed by the churchyard Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Sea SESTINA ON SIX WOUNDS BY VINCENTE HUIDOBRO, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An angel rises from the new volcano. Last Line: Who sailed to the volcano with the dove? %guide, angel, scholar, city-no one can sleep. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Suicide SETH, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seth was right in holding to Last Line: Had been a banner for his eyes. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean SETTING OF THE MOON NEAR CORINTH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From that dejected brow in silence beaming Subject(s): Sea SEVEN AFTERNOONS: SARGASSO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Time of the floating eye Last Line: Somewhere to go Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 2, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now by the wall of the ancient town I lean Last Line: And something that may be leaves or may be sea. Variant Title(s): Twilight: Rye, Sussex Subject(s): Night; Rye, England; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find. Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SEVENTH DAY OUT, by PHYLLIS STOWELL Poem Source First Line: Sea mist before, beside, behind Last Line: Hear the hollow the wind whistles through Subject(s): Sea; Travel SEVERUS TO TIBERIUS GREATLY ENNUYE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In places the water had thumbed the thick sunglow to patches Last Line: To go under as I did, sliding down a sleek-shouldered dream, not otherwise. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Sea; Treasures; Ocean SHACKLETON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two faces of the same coin: poet and explorer. This Last Line: Destined to go down, a bride of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Explorers; Funerals - At Sea; Sea Voyages; Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Burials At Sea SHADOW AND SHINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of the winter, and deepening Last Line: And the world was dear to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Storms; Winter; Ocean SHADOWS OF SAILS, by JOHN ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Over them all, we sit aloft and sing Subject(s): Sea SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHALLOWS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: I must swim out Last Line: And fade, as a sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE; A BRITISH CELEBRATORY BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the chesapeake so bold, / out of boston, I've [or, we've] been told" Last Line: "the true british sailor / is the dandy, o!" Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship);sea Battles;shannon (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare SHE PARTED WITH HER LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Beneath the hollow sea! Subject(s): Bells;faith;love;sea; Belief;creed;ocean SHELL CASTLES, by ROWENA BASTIN BENNETT Poem Source First Line: A seashell is a castle Subject(s): Sea SHELL'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon a shore, a pleasant shore Subject(s): Sea SHIFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you suddenly shift Last Line: In a way that may involve %your ending. Subject(s): Change; Sea; Suicide SHINING TRACT OF OCEAN, WHERE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea SHIP, by LOUISE A. DORAN Poem Source First Line: Over the shining pavement of the sea Subject(s): Sea SHIP, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A ship from valparaiso came Subject(s): Sea SHIP AND THE SEA, by BLANCHE EDITH BAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: Day after day, thro' following Subject(s): Sea SHIPS, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bending sails shall whiten on the sea Subject(s): Sea SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships Last Line: A-steaming down the bay. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean SHIPS OF SAINT JOHN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the ships I used to know Subject(s): Sea SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing Last Line: Which out of sight and sound is passing, passing? Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SHIPS WITH YOUR SILVER NETS, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Source Subject(s): Sea SHORE LINE, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: When the dry land appeared, and seas were called Last Line: That god made not a man -- and then a shore! Subject(s): Creation; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SHORE ROADS OF APRIL, by BERTRAM MARTIN ADAMS ADAMS Poem Source First Line: What do I see and hear of an april morning? Subject(s): Sea SHORTENING SAIL, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the proud horse, with costly trappings gay Subject(s): Sea SIEGE OF TRIPOLI (AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1804), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arise, arise, columbia's sons arise Last Line: Columbia still, columbia sails the main Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles SIGHED FURTHER OFF ETERNALLY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea SILENCES, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like silence under the se Last Line: Are as silently slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Sea; Silence; Ocean SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 91, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The horses of the sea Last Line: Toss and turn over. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses SINKING OF THE S.S. ESSEX LANCE, by JONATHAN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Charcoaling the moonlight with long mare's tails Last Line: Through the unmasked portholes of that whit passing %great hospital ship! Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Sea Battles SINKING OF THE S.S. GRADO, by JONATHAN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: When full moon is eye in window of night Last Line: Bold blaster of war's prowling piranha %and fisher of men! Subject(s): Sea Battles SINKING OF THE S.S. SANGARA, by JONATHAN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: On the sand bar shallows our anchor dragging Last Line: Dumb in the gabbling canoes from the shore awaking %- an armada of mercy - fragile as humanity Subject(s): Sea Battles SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It is a perfect summer day Last Line: "and know ""there is no joy but calm." Subject(s): Calm; Memory; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean SIR ANDREW BARTON (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When flora with her fragrant flowers Subject(s): Pirates; Sea SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIV'D, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aloof, and aloof, and steady I steer! Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Sea SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southward with fleet of ice Last Line: Sinking, vanish all away. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Sea; Ocean SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE'S FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who seeks the way to win renown Subject(s): Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Sea SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE'S LAST FIGHT, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our second richard lion heart Last Line: In our great day that comes apace. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Sea Battles; Naval Warfare SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean SIREN, by MICHAEL WHITE Poem Source First Line: All night, lashed to the mast of dream, it seemed Last Line: Toward shore (the body of gulf stream war and clear, %the seafloor sloping away below), I woke Subject(s): Dreams; Sea SIREN - WOMAN AND BIRD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In a small bed we tried the nights Last Line: That explode in your hair Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Women SITTING IN THE SAND, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Subject(s): Sea SKATE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: What she has gotten herself into is a boat Last Line: As if nothing had happened Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Storms; Women SKETCH OF AN OCCURRENCE ON BOARD A BRIG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea Last Line: Where sank, and died alone, the broken-hearted maid. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SKIPPER-HERMIT, by HIRAM RICH Poem Source First Line: For thirty year, come herrin'-time Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sea SKY LEANS DUMB ON THE SEA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea SKYLINE TRAILS, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: Smooth grey macadam, or sunshiny rail Last Line: I go, to the summons of skyline trails. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SLEEP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sways the restless sea Last Line: In dreams love hath no smart, -- sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SLOW, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Speedy rodriguez Last Line: To open them in the shade %to wait Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea SLOW PACIFIC SWELL, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far out of sight, forever stands the sea Last Line: Or gathers seaward, ebbing out of mind Subject(s): Sea SMALL ANIMAL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Beneath the emptiness of night %alone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well! Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War SMOOTH AND GLEAMING, by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: Spending the day Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SMUGGLER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my true love's a smuggler and sails upon the sea Subject(s): Sea; Smugglers And Smuggling SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean SNARLEYYOW, OR THE DOG FIEND, SELS., by FREDERICK MARRYAT Subject(s): Sea SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is how we used to imagine Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Snow; Sea; Ocean SNOW LIES SPRINKLED ON THE BEACH, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea SO LONG AS SUNN'D SEA-WATERS ROUND ME POUR, by WILLIAM CHARLES SCULLY Poem Source Subject(s): Sea SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO (THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF MARINES), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was spittin' into the ditch aboard o' the crocodile, Last Line: Soldier an' sailor too! Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Sea; Ocean SOLITARY NOTE, by VASILE IGNA Poem Source First Line: When the snowstorm sinks into sleep Last Line: The sea's language of coral and seaweed? Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Winter SOME ARGENTINIANS SAILED WITH US, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or a bird with strange wings %a fluttering bird Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail Last Line: And bear me away! -- away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 6. BORN TO THE PURPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most-like it was this kingly lad Last Line: As now thou rulest, smiling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean SOMETIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I take your hand Last Line: A ship leaving for strange and distant countries Subject(s): Dreams; Mediterranean Sea; Nightmares SOMETIMES WHEN AT NIGHT, FR. THE WANDERERS, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SONG, by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the vast deep ocean Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the long, the wide dark seas Last Line: Far from the shore -- yea far! Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Love; Nightmares; Ocean SONG, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shall be thy lullaby Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Ocean SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream Last Line: The heart-break! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is chafing at our long delay Last Line: To reach a land unknown. Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SONG, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Text First Line: The sea hath many thousand sands Last Line: Proves care's confessor at the last. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days men drew their sword Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir! Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean SONG (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what comes over the sea Last Line: And sail it slow or fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is alone in the sky Last Line: Beating to bliss that is past evermore. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Soul; Ocean SONG AT THE RED SEA, by GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sing to jehovah, who gloriously triumphs Last Line: He reigns in his glory, through infinite days! Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Red Sea; Judaism SONG FOR A SURF-RIDER, by SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I ride the horse that is the sea Subject(s): Sea SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day a rude brief recitative Last Line: All seas, all ships. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG FOR OSEI BONSU, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: In the cave cut by waves Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SONG OF AN OLD SAILOR, by TREFOR DAVIES Poem Source First Line: When I was young I took the sea to wife Subject(s): Sea SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands Last Line: Again we grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG OF THE DANISH SEA-KING, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark is on the waters deep, our bright blade's in our hand Last Line: As proudly, through the foaming surge, the sea-king bears away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE FUTURE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that in a land so strong Last Line: Shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Freedom; Future; God; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean SONG OF THE GULF STREAM, by FRANCIS ALAN FORD Poem Source First Line: Twas yesterday he made me and tommorrow ... Die Subject(s): Sea SONG OF THE HATTERAS WHALE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To an ebbing tide, all sail apeak Subject(s): Sea SONG OF THE MARINER'S NEEDLE, by C. R. CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Ho! Burnish well, ye cunning hands Subject(s): Sea SONG OF THE RED REPUBLICAN (1), by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fling out the red banner! It fiery front under Last Line: The foot-fall of freedom beats quick at our hearts Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt; Freedom; Red Sea SONG OF THE RED REPUBLICAN (2), by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tyrants, build your bulwarks! Forge your fetters! Link your Last Line: And brothers, gallant brothers, we'l be with you in that day Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt; Freedom; Red Sea SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even as one voice the great sea sang.From out Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: Unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Sea Horses SONG OF THE SEA ROVER, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: The first day she was cold and still Last Line: The rovers of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I Last Line: The conqueror of space. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SEAFARERS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have forgotten the old ways of earth Last Line: Pray god, we never tread the earth again! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OF THE SHELL, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Text First Line: The aged ocean is my nurse Last Line: Sing, ocean, surge and sing! Subject(s): Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology SONG OF THE STORM, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the barren moor Subject(s): Sea SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And Last Line: Would they have really come? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE WATER-NIXIES, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: By the ripple, ripple of the shallow sea Subject(s): Sea SONG ON CAPTAIN BARNEY'S VICTORY OVER SHIP GENERAL MONK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the waste of waters cruising Last Line: Yields the sceptre of the main. Subject(s): American Revolution; Barney, Joshua (1759-1818); General Monk (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare SONG ON THE WATER (1), by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild with passion, sorrow-beladen Last Line: As from the waves our oar. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG OR SOBBING?, by ELIZABETH CRAIGMYLE Poem Source First Line: What aileth thee, o sea? Subject(s): Sea SONG TO MARY, by CAPTAIN THOMSON Poem Source First Line: The topsail shiver in the wind Subject(s): Sea SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 2, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text First Line: Lovers and mockers, both are despicable Last Line: The shore is everywhere. And always the sea calls.— Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG: 34, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden are you lonely Last Line: Standing there beside the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To seek each where where man doth live Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE: PRELUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the green bud and the red Last Line: The sacred spaces of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Soul; Youth; Ocean SONGS FOR THE SEACOW, by ARTHUR MCA. MILLER Poem Source First Line: It was seventeen days with no water laid like flatiron on the sail Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come home, come home! And where is home for me Last Line: Indeed our home? Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3 [LATER VERSION], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come home, come home! And where an home hath he Last Line: Is there indeed, or is there not a shore %that is our home? Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 5, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, come back, behold with straining mast Last Line: The strong ship follows its appointed way. Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Last Line: Far, far behind, is all that they can say. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping SONGS IN ABSENCE: 8, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty ocean rolls and raves Last Line: Could dream I travelled o'er to you. Subject(s): Absence; Sea Voyages; Separation; Isolation SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 100, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love said, 'what is the sea?' Last Line: "heart of my heart!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 19, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sea's eternal rote Last Line: And croons the golden daylight down. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 20, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind and stars, I am with you now Last Line: Than the very dark grows dear. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Farewell SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 21, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the zest of all the ages Last Line: From the sea. Subject(s): Sea SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 22, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes like the blue-green Last Line: Virginal wild. Subject(s): Sea SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 32, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, lift your longing face up through the rain! Last Line: Calls the great heart of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the little songs Last Line: Turning her face to the sun. Subject(s): Songs; Children; Sea; Innocence; Spring; Happiness; Love SONGS OF TRAVEL: 44, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a song of a lad that is gone Last Line: All that was me is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Lad That Is Gone;over The Sea To Skye Subject(s): Sea Voyages SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw when I looked up, on either hand Last Line: Cry, thou black prophetess! Lift up! Cry, cry.' Subject(s): Birds; Omens; Prophecy & Prophets; Ravens; Sea; Ocean SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal-light flashes east Last Line: And all the stars above. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 3. WHEN THE WIND IS LOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind is low, and the sea is soft Last Line: But you are eternity. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Wind; Ocean SONGS TO A.H.R.: 6. LOVE AND INFINITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the kindling twilight moon Last Line: Were you not by! Subject(s): Love; Sea; Stars; Ocean SONNET, by ANDRE FONTAINAS Poem Text First Line: Sea-road a-tremble where the dawnlight swoons Last Line: And ware the cloud wherefrom the thunder's roll'd. Subject(s): Happiness; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONNET OF SEAMEN'S UNION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time the sea was fraught with fear Last Line: And the weak learn that union is their strength. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor Unions; Sea Pilots; Strength SONNET ON SEEING A VESSEL WEIGH ANCHOR FOR A LONG VOYAGE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide! Last Line: Go, gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Sea Voyages SONNET ON THE SEA'S VOICE (1), by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since ocean rolled and ocean winds ... Strong Subject(s): Sea SONNET ON THE SEA'S VOICE (2), by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has loosed its armies on the west Subject(s): Sea SONNET TO ALISA ROCK, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, thou craggy ocean pyramid! Last Line: Another cannot wake thy giant size. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET TO THE SEA SERPENT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welter upon the waters, mighty one Last Line: You are a great deal bigger than you are. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET-SONG: ORPHEUS AND THE MARINERS MAKE ANSWER, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Fleet, fleet and few, ay, fleet the moments Last Line: Peal the glad paean! (steady oars and sail.) Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 2, 22, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy bark from shore, though near the night Last Line: Between the sailing cloud and the seasick sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: 33. TO A LADY WHO DIED AT SEA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give Last Line: While time, and love, and memory shall endure, Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SONNET: 9, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown Last Line: Toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET: CLEAVE THOU THE WAVES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cleave thou the waves that weltering to and fro Last Line: The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sea; Conduct Of Life; Ocean SONNET: SEA-MUSIC, by MATHILDA BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices of the whispering woods are still Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 36. STRONG, LIKE THE SEA, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: If god be dead, and man be left alone Last Line: Strong like the lone winds and the lonelier sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean SONNETS: 1. TO THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy god permits thee, but with dreadful hand Last Line: From us yet hidden and our blinded race. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SONS OF SONG ARE GONE TO REST, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Sea SOON AS THEY WERE AFRESH UPON THE SEA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.) Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean SOUTH FORELAND, SELS., by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea SOUTHWARD SIDONIAN HANNO, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Explorers; Hanno (5th Century B.c.); Sea SPAIN'S LAST ARMADA, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fling their flags upon the morn Last Line: To shed their lurid lustre on the empire that was spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 18, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I do not say that my boat Last Line: In her movements, I do say Subject(s): Boats; Sea SPANISH GALLEONS SEEN BY AN AZTEC, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last, as far as I could cast my eyes Subject(s): Sea SPANISH LADIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell and adieu to you, fine spanish ladies" Last Line: With a health to each jovial and true-hearted soul Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SPECTRE SHIP, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Source First Line: When april skies are bright with sun Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Sea SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, THOU DOST LOVE THE SEA, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Source Subject(s): Sea SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I walked on the ice of the sea Last Line: I could hear the voice say %keep going Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Sea SPIT, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking I'd better be prepared when I went Last Line: Releases her to a free moment of disgust Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Sea SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY Poem Text First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean SPUMA DAL MARE (ON THE LATIN COAST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower o' the wave Last Line: The many-coloured. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Italy; Peacocks; Sea; Italians; Ocean SQUALL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coming about, / when the squall knocked her Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Ocean SQUID TOWN, KOREA, by CATHY HONG Poem Source First Line: Later, they will turn edible, dry into rich salt hides. But now, they Last Line: Devour all of it, the slimy rawness, severing its ink jet and use its %black to seal my signature Subject(s): Korea; Sea Monsters STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why with its ring has the connecting sea Last Line: And speed its course with zealous heart and hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Peace; Sea; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Ocean STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English STANZAS. WRITTEN BETWEEN DOVER AND CALAIS, IN JULY, 1792, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bounding billow, cease thy motion Last Line: Now we part -- to meet no more! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sea Voyages STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base Last Line: The spirits pass? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean STARS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over there, over there, the bell ringer pointed Last Line: A night the same as all other nights Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Sea STARSHINE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Once from a ship on the baltic I saw Last Line: Of light on seas of unspeakable dark Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Love; Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) STATE OF THE UNION: 2. PROGRESS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sandboats on the lagoon Last Line: Since they set out at dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel STELLA MARIS, SELS., by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the sea; and fair the sea-borne billow Subject(s): Sea STEPHANO'S SONG, FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I Last Line: Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang! Variant Title(s): A Sea Song;song Subject(s): Sea; Ocean STERRET'S SEA FIGHT (AUGUST 1, 1801), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak Last Line: To columbia's flag she strikes Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Sea Battles; Sterrett, Andrew STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!" Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean STILLY MURMUR OF THE DISTANT SEA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea STORIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel STORM, by JOHN DONNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: England, to whom we owe what we be and have Subject(s): Sea STORM ALONG (CHANTY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old stormy he was a good old man Subject(s): Sea STORM AND CALM, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lone house shakes, the wild waves leap Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Sea STORM AT LAST IS COME, FR. TAMERTON CHURCH TOWER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea STORM AT SEA (1), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: The quarrelling winds perplex me. On this side Last Line: With great holes gaping, rent and torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM AT SEA (2), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: On top of all the rest comes on a new Last Line: We suffered, prove our manhood now! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many have sung of the terrors of storm Last Line: Storm, the matchless artist, lord of colour and line. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms STORM SIGNALS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-wreath, mist-sheath Last Line: The foam is bound to fly! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM-WAVES AND FOG ON DORR'S POINT, BAR HARBOR, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fog's gray curtain round me draws Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Fog; Harbors; Sea; Storms; Waves; Haze; Ocean STORM; TO MR. CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be so) Last Line: So violent, yet long these furies be, %that though thine absence starve me, I wish not thee Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Storm. To Mr Christopher Brook Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Sea STORMS AND OVERWHELMING WAVES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea STORMY PETREL, by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL Poem Source First Line: When fierce along his ocean-path Subject(s): Sea STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, a long while ago, there were four little people whose Last Line: Their father's house as a diaphanous doorscraper Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages STORY OF ULYSSES, by GEORGE GOWER Poem Source First Line: In other thing who that recordeth Subject(s): Sea STOVE BOAT', by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: The whale has caught this boat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters STRAIGHT ON TO PORT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight through the sea-foam and the awful sea Last Line: There to forget what storms have bruised her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea Voyages STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: In ocean's perilous night, without a clue Last Line: The land keeps opening slowly, more and more Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers; Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521); Sailors And Sailing; Sea STRANDED WHALES, by MARGARET WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Aground in shallows here, the dark whales lie Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters STREET-CRIES: 2. THE SHIP OF EARTH, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ship of earth, with death, and birth, and life, and sex aboard Last Line: Prattville, alabama, 1868. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean STRIDES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Logic strides where the seagull's beak Last Line: Shreds of crab or gull or man. Subject(s): Chaos; Reason; Sea STRIKE THE BLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Last Line: Ye are king of the land and king of the foam. / strike the blow! Subject(s): Cuba;sea Battles;spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare STRONG SATURATION OF SEA! O WIDELY FLOWN, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And thoughts like death-bells echoing far and near, %toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours Subject(s): Sea STUDIES BY THE SEA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore do the incurious say Last Line: Round the green peopled earth, and call'd it good! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise Last Line: The intolerable thought none can ignore. Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUICIDES, by ADRIENNE WOLFERT Poem Source First Line: Red is the sea, the red sea flecked with white Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUMMER AT SEVEN, by JUDY KRONENFELD Poem Source First Line: The breeze gathers the thin skin Last Line: Down, %--down, %--down, %down Subject(s): Children; Sea; Summer SUMMER NOON AT SEA, by EPES SARGENT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A holy stillness, beautiful and deep Subject(s): Sea SUMMER SNOW, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: An evening by the sea Subject(s): Sea SUN, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: This is my most famous charade Last Line: Like a ruined beast with a lens Subject(s): Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel SUN UPON THE WHITE SEA SHONE, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SUN'S OVER THE FOREYARD', by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a passenger in the barque windrush Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Sea SUNBEAMS IN THE SEA, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no cloud in all the sky Last Line: Makes music evermore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SUNDAY - A CALM AT SEA, by MRS. O. N. KNOX Poem Source First Line: Now the wild waters sway themselves to rest Subject(s): Sea SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNLIGHTS WAVER FROM ROCK TO ROCK, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Sea SUNRISE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dim light to the sou'ward Last Line: Climbs up out of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Dawn; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sunrise; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SUNRISE AT SEA, by EDWIN ATHERSTONE Poem Source First Line: The interminable ocean lay beneath Subject(s): Sea SUNRISE AT SEA, by EPES SARGENT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the mild weather came Subject(s): Sea SUNRISE FLASHES AND FLOATS AND FLICKERS, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SUNRISE ON THE COAST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey dawn on the sand hills - the night wind has drifted Last Line: Behold, 'tis that marvel, the birth of a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SUNSET AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where he sinks from sight Last Line: Above his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean SUNSET BLUES, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seagulls' crying Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sea SUNSET-MOOD, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Outward-bound for singapore Last Line: Steaming to cathay! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green! Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SURF CASTER, by CHARLES PIERRE Poem Source First Line: The fine line that keeps him connected to the depths Last Line: The common catch, something only he would know Subject(s): Sea SWITZERLAND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see my bliss at hand Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SWITZERLAND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see my bliss at hand Last Line: The mists are on the mountain hung, %and marguerite I shall see no more Subject(s): Sea SWORD, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The vagabondary of the sea. The octopus beached on the Last Line: Round my waist a sea of thoughts Subject(s): Exiles; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Ships And Shipping TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE, by WALTER MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: The weather-leech of the topsail shivers Last Line: Eight bells have struck, and my watch is below. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TAILLEFER THE TROUVERE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed in their long gray galleys, they tossed on the narrow sea Last Line: On the verge of the fight at senlac with a song upon his lips! Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Sea Battles; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Naval Warfare TAKING OF CARTAGNA, by THOMAS GREEPE Poem Source First Line: The mariners the while provide Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea TANKA: 2, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, somnolent, white Last Line: And live in the dawnlit sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TARA-BINDU, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the breeze falls asleep Last Line: Behind the emerald screen of the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Rest; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean TEACH THE ROVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Will you hear of a bloody battle Subject(s): Sea TELL ME, TELL ME, SARAH JANE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Sea TEMPEST, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In the morning, leaving a shore the color Last Line: Our prow like a body made of tears Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Storms TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean TEMPEST, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Love; Sea TERRA INCOGNITA, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: We've walked since morning, the landscape, as before, perfect sem Last Line: Any he's seen before, swears there's not a constellation he can recognize Subject(s): Camping; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel TESTAMENT, by ATTWOOD ROBSON Poem Source First Line: O sea %hear my testament Subject(s): Sea THALASSA, by LOUISE SEYMOUR JONES Poem Text First Line: In a faraway mist Last Line: Endlessly long. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THALATTA, by WILLIS BOYD ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the billows unresting forever Subject(s): Sea THALATTA, THALATTA!, by VIRGIL MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: The march wore on; vigor had ceased to be Last Line: Some silver gleam that speaks to me of home! Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean THAT DAY OF DAYS WHEN I AND YOU, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea THAT SIMPLE, THAT SOPHISTICATED, by MARIAH BURTON NELSON Poem Source First Line: Sunbathing flat-naked on an empty beach Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow. Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL Poem Text First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory! Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare THE APPLES, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the wounded seaman heard the ocean-daughters Last Line: Homeward to the deep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ARCHIPELAGO, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail before the morning breeze Last Line: Marquesas! Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Greeks THE ARETHUSA, by PRINCE HOARE Poem Text First Line: Come, all ye jolly sailors bold Last Line: On board of the arethusa! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE ATTACK, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In hampton roads, the airs of march were bland Last Line: She sank, thank god! Unsoiled by foot of traitor! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Always the river called to him Last Line: Arms unseen now cling to him! Subject(s): Boats; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE BALLAD OF DEAD MEN'S BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea swings owre the slants of sand Last Line: That look upon that light. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF GREGORIE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I have now an argosy, a-sailing on the sea Last Line: You'll live in peace and plenty on an island all your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too Last Line: But I never believed the tale. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE CLAMPHERDOWN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our war-ship clampherdown Last Line: And as it still shall be. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side Last Line: And now they keep an oyster-shop for mermaids down below. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE SEA-BORN MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered too far from the foam on the shore Last Line: Yet happily, most happily, beyond the hills I reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BATH, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the once lovely monster, in the tide Last Line: The foamy lash of the assaulting sea. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea; Ocean THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life Last Line: Between the land and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean THE BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG BAY [SEPTEMBER 11, 1814], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plattsburg bay! Plattsburg bay! Last Line: And humbled her pride who is queen of the main! Subject(s): Macdonough, Thomas (1783-1825); Plattsburg Bay, Battle Of; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE BATTLE OF THE BIGHT (NAVAL ACTION IN THE BIGHT OF HELIGOLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As rose the misty sun Last Line: Nor have they shamed their sire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Helgoland Bight, Battle Of; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE BAY OF BISCAY, O!, by ANDREW CHERRY Poem Text First Line: Loud roared the dreadful thunder Last Line: From the bay of biscay, o! Subject(s): Biscay, Bay Of; Sea; Ocean THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have pined for the sight of the sea for years Last Line: Thrills others with rapture, but cannot charm me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, staunchly entering port Last Line: I only saw, at last, the beauty of the ship. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE BELL AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tide's billowy swell Last Line: Stern though it be! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bells; Sea; Ocean THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very best ship that ever I knew Last Line: Oh, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run. Subject(s): March (month); Sea; Ships & Shipping; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE BIRD AND THE SHIP, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers rush into the sea Last Line: Neither poet nor printer may know.' Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLACK RIDERS: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black riders came from the sea Last Line: Thus the ride of sin. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLACK RIDERS: 38, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean said to me once Last Line: "with a surplus of toys." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BLUE WAKE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the blood-red sun sank in the western sky Last Line: To furnish her a home. Subject(s): Absence; Blue (color); Sea; Wakes; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE BOOK OF EXODUS: SONG OF THE SEA, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Now moses & now israel's children sing this song Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism; Sea; Ocean THE BOOK OF SEDIMENTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eye is an ocean bounded on every side by desert, Last Line: Through undreamed light and water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE BRITISH PRISON-SHIP, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these ills no tyrant dared refuse Last Line: And his last efforts more than damn the first. Subject(s): American Revolution; Hospitals; Navy - Great Britain; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea Battles; English Navy; Convicts; Naval Warfare THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brook from a headland was falling Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink." Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE BROOKLYN AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt clouded heights spain hurls to doom Last Line: On such a ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Brooklyn (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Schley, Winfield Scott (1839-1909); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE BUCCANEERS, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not for us the easy mirth Last Line: The fearful joy of fate. Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master! Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America THE BUOY-BELL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like the leper, with his own sad cry Last Line: Breathed in their distant homes by wife or child! Subject(s): Bell Buoys; Sea; Ocean THE BURIAL OF THE DANE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue gulf all around us Last Line: We have buried our dead! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BURTHEN OF THE TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide was dark and heavy with the burden that it bore Last Line: For more. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE CALL, by G. R. S. BLACKABY Poem Text First Line: The roaring torrent, on its urgent way Last Line: For evermore. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean THE CALL OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Gone are the days of canvas sails! Last Line: Haunting their houses till they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CALM [CALME], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage Last Line: I should not then thus feele this miserie. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Calm Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE CAPTAIN; A LEGEND OF THE NAVY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that only rules by terror Last Line: With one waft of the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea; English Navy; Ocean THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues THE CASTAWAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE CASTLE BY THE SEA, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen that lordly castle Last Line: "no maiden was by their side!" Subject(s): Castles; Sea; Ocean THE CATFISH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean Last Line: If you know what it is! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign Last Line: Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Subject(s): Mollusks; Nautilus (shell); Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CHANNEL TUNNEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for less love, all glorious france, to thee Last Line: And spirit at one with spirit on either side. Subject(s): France; Sea; Ocean THE CHARNEL SHIP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The breeze blew fair, the waving sea Last Line: Mong the red coral groves for you. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CHILD AND THE MARINER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: A dear old couple my grandparents were Last Line: No good in port or out' -- my grandad said. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CHILD AND THE OCEAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, ocean dear, all yesterday Last Line: "I'll never frighten you again." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Fear; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the warring waters, beneath the wandering skies Last Line: The wide-warring water, under the starry skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck like a blur of gold across the night Last Line: The thunders of his old unconquered might. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY-PARK, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: A haven in a stormy sea Last Line: Foaming along in endless tide! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CLIFFSIDE PATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down Last Line: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Subject(s): Sea; Sun; Wind; Ocean THE COAST OF BOHEMIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some still angel who, in toilless might Last Line: Of sea flamed loose -- and then we saw those isles. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Sea; Ocean THE COCOA-NUT TREE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green and the graceful - the cocoa-nut tree Last Line: There will a picture of beauty be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Cocoa; Islands; Sea; Trees; Ocean THE COLD WAVE OF 32 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, o thaliarchus, and soracte's crest is / white Last Line: Hurry, o my thaliarchus, let us go that to there place. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CONQUEROR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hears the whir of the battle Last Line: Into a tangle of endless wars. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; War; Ocean THE CONSTELLATION AND THE INSURGENTE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come all ye yankee sailors, with swords and pikes advance" Last Line: And now 'the girl we love the most!' / my brave yankee boys Variant Title(s): Truxton's Victory; Or Brave Yankee Boys Subject(s): "constellation (ship);insurgente (ship);navy - United States;sea Battles;truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822);" "american Navy;naval Warfare;truxton, Thomas; THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I often have been told Last Line: "since we hooked you in the gill, / don't boast upon dacres the grandee o" Subject(s): "constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);hull, Isaac (1773-1843);sea Battles;war Of 1812;" Naval Warfare THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a solitude of the sea Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toil on! Toil on! Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain. Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean THE COURSE OF TIME: OCEAN, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great ocean! Strongest of creation's sons Last Line: Thy great obeisance. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE COVES OF CRAIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon-white waters wash and leap Last Line: Amid the coves of crail. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Crail, Scotland; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP, by EMMA HART WILLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep Last Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep. Variant Title(s): In The Cradle Of The Deep Subject(s): God; Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the power that made the nautilus Last Line: And sailing onward ever seems at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROVER', A.D. 1575, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed away one morning when sowing-time was over Last Line: Then kissed each other silently, and hand in hand they died. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; English Navy; Naval Warfare THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Out of a northern city's bay Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERBUNCE, by PAUL WEST Poem Text First Line: I strolled beside the shining sea Last Line: "the difference 'twixt 'might' and 'could'!" Subject(s): Nonsense; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some names there are of telling sound Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay Last Line: And without a seam! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUP OF OCEAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the cup of ocean hold? Last Line: Gaze within e'er ye bend and drink. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DAEMON, SELECTION, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the sightless seas of ether Last Line: And indifferent as they. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DANGER OF THE SEA; 13TH BOOK OF MACARONICS, by TEOFILO FOLENGO Poem Text First Line: The treacherous seas unwary men betray Last Line: Then y' had ne'er strove to reach the shore in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Coccaius, Merlinus; Coccaio, Merlino; Folengo, Girolamo Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEAD, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that breaks on the opposite shore Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL BENBOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you sailors bold Last Line: As our fathers did before / long ago Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia Last Line: And thine aequanimitas! Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE DEEP, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's beauty in the deep Last Line: There's quiet in the deep. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MRS. THOMAS B. UPCHURCH Poem Text First Line: Oh restless sea! Confide in me Last Line: Roll on, thou deep blue sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP SEA CABLES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from Last Line: "and a new word runs between: whispering, ""let us be one!" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE DEEP-SEA PEARL, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of my life came not Last Line: And the deep sea covers all. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE; FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Othere, the old sea captain, / who dwelt in helgoland Last Line: "behold this walrus-tooth!" Subject(s): Alfred, King Of Saxons (871-901); Explorers; Norway; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean THE DIVER, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poet's Biography First Line: Sank through easeful Subject(s): Scuba Diving; Sea; Sports; Ocean THE DOLPHIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Take me, o sea! I plunge. My suit do not contemn! Of metamor Last Line: Attain the sun! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE DOUBLE SKEIN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up ere the throstle is out of the thorn Last Line: For still with its treasure the heart will be. Subject(s): Sea THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cherbourg roads the pirate lay Last Line: "and for heroes like winslow is shouting, ""thank god!" Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Cherbourg, France; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873); Naval Warfare THE EBBING TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A long low gurgle down the strand Last Line: Dense blue beneath the dense blue skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Tides; Ocean THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!" Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE EXCURSION, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How delightful, at sunset, to loosen the boat! Last Line: By the time we reach the shore, it seems as though the fifth month were autumn. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Boats; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE EXPECTED SHIP, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I heard a poet say Last Line: That brings the ship from o'er the sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FAMOUS FIGHT AT MALAGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you brave sailors that sails on the main Last Line: Because with five frigates we did them destroy Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;sea;sea Battles; English Navy;ocean;naval Warfare THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE FIGUREHEAD, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This that is washed with weed and pebblestone Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FINAL FREEDOM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the grim end, no prison for me Last Line: "one with the wind and sky and sea." Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Love; Sea; Destiny; Liberty; Ocean THE FIRST VOYAGE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: The ocean is his home! Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wade / through black jade Last Line: Its youth. The sea grows old in it. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced Last Line: Quicken'd with touches of transporting fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Three Sonnets Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unyielding in the pride of his defiance Last Line: One fog-walled island more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor! Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE FORSAKEN MERMAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear children, let us away Last Line: "the kings of the sea." Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Mothers; Sea; Elves; Ocean THE FRIEND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great friend Last Line: A profounder mystery. Subject(s): Friendship; India; Sea; Ocean THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GIFT OF THE SEA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead child lay in the shroud Last Line: "we let it die in the dark!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean THE GOLDEN VANITY (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a gallant ship, and a gallant ship was she" Last Line: And sink off the lowlands low Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE GRAVEDIGGER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old Last Line: Shoulder them in to shore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE GREAT DIVIDE, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I drift out on the silver sea Last Line: When I drift out on the silver sea. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE [SKERRY], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An earthly nourrice [nurse] sits and sings Last Line: He'll shoot both my young son and me Variant Title(s): The Silkie O' Sule Skerrie Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen;sea; Ocean THE GREEK GALLEY, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of the sea, the sway of the song, the swing of the oar! Last Line: We are home at last! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE GROUND SWELL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How soft the shades of evening creep Last Line: Their hearts throb silently! Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE HAGLETS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat Last Line: The abysm and the star. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE HAPPY PAIR, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came and went so lightly Last Line: A grandchild and a son. Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Sea; Ocean THE HAPPY VOYAGE, by ETHEL GATES COATES Poem Text First Line: As those who stand upon an unknown shore Last Line: Our love and faith have glorified the years. Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HERITAGE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: From the drear north, a cold and cheerless land Last Line: By the wild sea. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Sea; Ocean THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS Poem Text First Line: We have gone down to the sea Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock ticks on the old oak stair Last Line: Alone. . . . He understands. Subject(s): Fear; Kisses; Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE HURRICANE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who, safe on shore Last Line: And ruin is the lot of all. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sea; Ocean THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE IMPRISONED SEA-WINDS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voices of strange sea breezes caught Last Line: And the sea's mystery sighs through all. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE INCHCAPE ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stir in the air, no stir in the sea Last Line: The devil below was ringing his knell. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE INDIA WHARF, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the velvet stillness Last Line: Of ivory and scarlet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York Harbor; Sea Voyages THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Eastward lies the island Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea? Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness THE JUMBLIES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They went to sea in a sieve, they did Last Line: And they went to sea in a sieve. Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents THE LADY AT SEA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cables entangling her Last Line: "good lord deliver us!'" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Celia and I the other day Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die! Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean THE LANDSMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds that move not its calm surface sweep Last Line: Moves the calm spirit, but disturbs it not. Variant Title(s): The Ocean;the Gleaming Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one can take away from me Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea! Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean THE LAST BUCCANEER, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds were yelling, the waves were swelling Last Line: Of the flag of the last buccaneer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LAST CHANTEY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus said the lord in the vault above the cherubim Last Line: Who heard the silly sailor-folk and gave them back their sea! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE LESSER ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them dumb -- yet daily there uprise Last Line: Lost in the love of that diviner day. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE LETTER OF MARQUE, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: We had sailed out a letter of marque Last Line: We shall see and hear, to our dying day. Subject(s): Sea Battles; Shoal Of George's, Massachusetts; Naval Warfare THE LIGHT, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: Firm on a rock the lighthouse stands Last Line: Wherever you choose to roam. Subject(s): Lighthouses; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE LIPS OF THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst win the rhythmic heart of things Last Line: Hang trembling ever on her darkling lips. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LISBON PACKET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huzza! Hodgson, we are going Last Line: Ev'n on board the lisbon packet? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Lines To Mr. Hodgson;lines To Mr. Hodgson, Written On Board The Lisbon Packet Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE LIVING SEA, FR. JOY O' LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like the city is unto the sea Last Line: Unhailed, unsignalled and unsignalling! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm Last Line: To see her red coats marching from the hill! Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to be with you, elate, unshared Last Line: Oh hasten hither my kestrel joy Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE MAIN DEEP, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long, rolling, / steady-pouring Last Line: ...Hush -- hushing.... Variant Title(s): The Main-deep Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Ocean THE MALDIVE SHARK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the shark, phlegmatical one Last Line: Pale ravener of horrible meat. Subject(s): Hate; Sea; Sharks; Ocean THE MARINER, by RUTH ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: There was something about the sea that drew Last Line: For again he is sailing the uncharted seas. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more adrift Last Line: The life that used to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean TH |