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• The Inchcape Rock

  No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,—
  The ship was as still as she could be;
  Her sails from heaven received no motion; …

  Robert Southey

• “How ’s my boy?”

  “ho, sailor of the sea!
  How ’s my boy—my boy?”
  “What ’s your boy’s name, good wife, …

  Sydney Dobell

• The Sailor’s Consolation

  One night came on a hurricane,
  The sea was mountains rolling,
  When Barney Buntline turned his quid, …

  William Pitt

• Poor Jack

  Go, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see,
  ’Bout danger, and fear, and the like;
  A tight-water boat and good sea-room give me, …

  Charles Dibdin

• The Mariner’s Dream

  In slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay;
  His hammock swung loose at the sport of the wind;
  But watch-worn and weary, his cares flew away, …

  William Dimond

• The Sea-Limits

  Consider the sea’s listless chime:
  Time’s self it is, made audible—
  The murmur of the earth’s own shell. …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• The Culprit Fay

  “My visual orbs are purged from film, and, lo!
  Instead of Anster’s turnip-bearing vales,
  I see old fairy land’s miraculous show! …

  Joseph Rodman Drake

• “Oh! where do fairies hide their heads?”

  Oh! where do fairies hide their heads,
  When snow lies on the hills,
  When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, …

  Thomas Haynes Bayley

• Songs of Ariel

  From “The Tempest,” Act I. Sc. 2.
  I.
  COME unto these yellow sands, …

  William Shakespeare

• Airy Nothings

  From “The Tempest,” Act IV. Sc. 1.
  OUR revels now are ended. These our actors,
  As I foretold you, were all spirits, and …

  William Shakespeare

• The Erl-King

  From the German by Sir Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun
  WHO rides so late through the midnight blast?
  ’T is a father spurs on with his child full fast; …

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• The Djinns

  Anonymous translation from the French
  TOWN, tower,
  Shore, deep, …

  Victor Hugo

• The Lady lost in the Wood

  From “Comus”
  THE LADY.—This way the noise was, if mine ear be true,
  My best guide now; methought it was the sound …

  John Milton

• The Nymph of the Severn

  From “Comus”
  SPIRIT.—There is a gentle nymph not far from hence
  That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream. …

  John Milton

• The Lore-Lei

  Anonymous translation from the German
  I KNOW not whence it rises,
  This thought so full of woe;— …

  Heinrich Heine

• The Fisher

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  THE WATERS purled, the waters swelled,—
  A fisher sat near by, …

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• The Flitting of the Fairies

  From “The End of Elfintown”
  * * * * *FOR this holds true—too true, alas!
  The sky that eve was clear as glass, …

  Jane Barlow

• A Transformation

  From the Latin by Henry King
  From “The Metamorphoses”
  WEARY and travel-worn,—her lips unwet …

  Ovid

• The Comet

  October, 1858
  ERRATIC Soul of some great Purpose, doomed
  To track the wild illimitable space, …

  Charles Sangster

• The Ballad of Judas Iscariot

  ’t Was the body of Judas Iscariot
  Lay in the Field of Blood;
  ’T was the soul of Judas Iscariot …

  Robert Buchanan

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