Poems about Sea poems

Lo, I have loved thee long, long have I yearned and entreated!Tell me how I may win thee, tell me how I must woo.Shall I creep to thy white feet, in guise of a humble lover ?Shall I croon in mild p

The Sea called--I lay on the rocks and said:"I am come."She mocked and showed her teeth,Stretching out her long green arms."Go away!" she thundered."Then tell me what I am to do," I begged."If I

These sea slugs,they just don't seemJapanese.Translated by Robert HassAuthor: Kobayashi Issa

SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides,Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales,The lofty mast the breezy air derides,As gaily o'er the glitt'ring surf she sails. Now beats each galla

The dead child lay in the shroud, And the widow watched beside;And her mother slept, and the Channel swept The gale in the teeth of the tide.But the mother laughed at all. "I have lost my man in

I To none the city bends a servile knee; Purse-proud and scornful, on her heights she stands, And at her feet the great white moaning sea Shoulders incessantly the grey-gold sands,-- One the A

From my window I can see, Where the sandhills dip, One far glimpse of open sea. Just a slender slip Curving like a crescent moon— Yet a greater prize Than the harbour garde

The pulsing sound of moving sea; The ocean surf- tranquility! An ocean breeze- With sunset's glaze; Seaoats in view- and ocean waves! An endless flow- of sand and shells; Ebbed back and fort

Shades of green and aqua blue The sea painted a thousand hues Beneath thundering ocean wave Out of the reach of mariners graves A living testimony swims in majesty once the rulers of the sea A w

A gallant city has been builded farIn the pied heaven,Bannered with crimson, sentinelled by star Of crystal even;Around a harbor of the twilight glowing,With jubilant waves about its gateways flo

Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, A gallant armament: Each bark built out of a forest-tree, Left leafy a

Friend of my chamber--O thou spiral shell That murmurest of the ever-murmuring sea! Repeating with eternal constancy Whatever memories the wave can tell; Whatever harmonies may rise and swell, Wh