Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest | | The Two Oceans | | John Sterling (1806–1844) |
| | | TWO seas, amid the night, | |
| In the moonshine roll and sparkle— | |
| Now spread in the silver light, | |
| Now sadden, and wail, and darkle. | |
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| The one has a billowy motion, | 5 |
| And from land to land it gleams; | |
| The other is sleep’s wide ocean, | |
| And its glimmering waves are dreams. | |
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| The one, with murmur and roar, | |
| Bears fleets around coast and islet; | 10 |
| The other, without a shore, | |
| Ne’er knew the track of a pilot. | | | | |
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