William Gay Sea Poems

  • 1.
    Three Ghosts that haunt me have I,
    Three Ghosts in my soul that fight,
    Three grandsire Ghosts in my soul,
    That haunt me by day and by night.
    ...
  • 2.
    I love not when the oily seas
    Heave huge and slow beneath the sun,
    When decks are hot, and dead the breeze,
    And wits are dropping one by one.
    ...
  • 3.
    THE WORLD did say to me,
    รข??My bread thou shalt not eat,
    I have no place for thee
    In house nor field nor street.
    ...
  • 4.
    FROM all division let our land be free,
    For God has made her one: complete she lies
    Within the unbroken circle of the skies,
    And round her indivisible the sea
    ...
  • 5.
    Dear lowly flower that liftest up
    Among the grass thy golden cup,
    I take thee from thy earthly bed
    And plant thee in my heart instead.
    ...
  • 6.
    Dark ocean walls, majestically steep,
    That dare the skies, that guard a solitude
    Of straitened sea from every tempest rude
    That uncontrolled molests the outer deep!
    ...
  • 7.
    SHE sits a queen whom none shall dare despoil,
    Her crown the sun, her guard the vigilant sea,
    And round her throne are gathered, stalwart, free,
    A people proud, yet stooping to the soil,
    ...
Total 7 Sea Poems by William Gay

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