Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Oceanica: Vol. XXXI. 1876–79. | | | | Miscellaneous: Seas of the Tropics | | A Calm in the Tropics | | Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| | | OH for one draught of cooling northern air! | |
| That it might pour its freshness on me now; | |
| That it might kiss my cheek and cleave my hair, | |
| And part its currents round my fevered brow! | |
| Ocean, and sky, and earth—a blistering calm | 5 |
| Spread over all! How weary wears the day! | |
| Oh, lift the wave, and bend the distant palm, | |
| Breeze! wheresoe’er thy lagging pinions stay! | |
| Triumphant burst upon the level deep, | |
| Rock the fixed hull and stretch the clinging sail! | 10 |
| Arouse the opal clouds that o’er us sleep! | |
| Sound thy shrill whistle! we will bid thee hail! | |
| Though wrapped in all the storm-clouds of the North, | |
| Yet, from thy home of ice, come forth, O breeze, come forth! | | | | |
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