| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | III. The Steamboat | | By Sir John Hanmer (1809–1881) |
| | | WHITE wings, that o’er the hyacinthine sea | |
| With joy or hope or sorrow long have sped; | |
| Since first he voyaged whom the Colchian wed, | |
| Bearing lone ships o’er many a salt degree; | |
| A voice came thence, where ye were wont to be, | 5 |
| A strange and serpent utterance; high o’erhead | |
| Trailed its dark breath; and with Ixion’s tread | |
| A keel passed by, mocking the stormy lee. | |
| Into the rack, far lessening, on it went, | |
| As once that antique lover of the cloud; | 10 |
| While ye to veering winds were bowed and bent; | |
| And Ocean roared with his great voice aloud, | |
| Lashing his waves ’gainst isle and continent, | |
| Vexed with the wake that wheel-borne ship had ploughed. | | | | |
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