Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | VII. The Sea | | To Sea! | | Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| | | TO sea! to sea! the calm is o’er, | |
| The wanton water leaps in sport, | |
| And rattles down the pebbly shore, | |
| The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, | |
| And unseen mermaid’s pearly song | 5 |
| Comes bubbling up, the weeds among. | |
| Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar: | |
| To sea! to sea! the calm is o’er. | |
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| To sea! to sea! our white-winged bark | |
| Shall billowing cleave its watery way, | 10 |
| And with its shadow, fleet and dark, | |
| Break the caved Triton’s azure day, | |
| Like mountain eagle soaring light | |
| O’er antelopes on Alpine height. | |
| The anchor heaves! The ship swings free! | 15 |
| Our sails swell full! To sea! to sea! | | | | |
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