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    The Sea, An Element In Verse
    The Sea, An Element In Verse
    The Sea, An Element In Verse
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    The Sea, An Element In Verse

    By John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Herman Melville

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    The Sea – An Element In Verse. Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans have a mystical power over us; from a playful day at the beach to the hysterical waves of the storm, this always changing element evokes both beauty and fear. Its great mass, its shimmering beauty, its raging howl and all in colours from blue to grey to green and crystal clear. In these collections of verse our poets – including Tennyson, Swinburne, Keats and Shelley and many others explore the relationship between ourselves and the great mystical waters. Many of these poems are also available on our audiobook version at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005058
    The Sea, An Element In Verse
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    John Keats

    Born in London in 1795, John Keats is one of the most popular of the Romantic poets of the 19th century. During his short life his work failed to achieve literary acclaim, but after his death in 1821 his literary reputation steadily gained pace, inspiring many subsequent poets and students alike.

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      The Sea, An Element In Verse - John Keats

      The Sea, An Element In Verse

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at each elements and themes through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide.  

      Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans have a mystical power over us; from a playful day at the beach to the hysterical waves of the storm, this always changing element evokes both beauty and fear.  Its great mass, its shimmering beauty, its raging howl and all in colours from blue to grey to green and crystal clear.  In these collections of verse our poets – including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville  and many others explore the relationship between ourselves and the great mystical waters.

      Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      Exultation Is The Going By Emily Dickinson 

      Sea Longing By Sara Teasdale

      The Triumph Of Time – An Extract By Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Mana Of The Sea By DH Lawrence

      On The Sea By John Keats

      The Sea Limits By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

      By The Sea By Christina Rossetti

      Man and the Sea By Charles Baudelaire

      The Sound Of The Sea By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      The Storm By John Dunne

      A Vision Of The Sea By Shelley

      The Beacon In The Storm By Victor Hugo

      Calm at Sea By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      Sir Humphrey Gilbert By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      The Wreck of the Hesperus By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      The Phantom Ship. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Frankie’s Trade By Rudyard Kipling

      Hearts Of Oak By David Garrick

      A Song In Storm BY Rudyard Kipling

      Rule Britannia By James Thomson

      Father Mapple’s Hymn – From Moby Dick By Herman Melville

      The Sailors Hymn By William Whiting

      Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes

      The World Below The Brine By Walt Whitman

      The Mermaid By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Sea Lullaby By Elinor Wylie

      The City In The Sea By Edgar Allen Poe

      The Berg (A Dream) By Herman Melville

      The Maldive Shark By Herman Melville

      The Ribs And Terrors In The Whale By Herman Melville

      Seaweed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      The Lighthouse By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Break Break Break By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Crossing The Bar By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      As I Ebb’d With The Ocean Of Life By Walt Whitman

      At Melville’s Tomb By Hart Crane

      The Convergence Of The Twain By Thomas Hardy

      The Ocean Said To Me Once By Stephen Crane

      The Ocean By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Sonnet To Ocean By Thomas Hood

      A Sea Dirge By Lewis Carroll

      The Dark Blue Sea By Byron

      A Hymn Of The Sea By William Cullen Bryant

      I Cast My Net Into The Sea By Tagore

      A Garden By The Sea By William Morris

      Down By The Carib Sea By James Weldon Johnson

      Sea Shell By Amy Lowell

      Come O’er The Sea By Thomas Moore

      Sunlight And The Sea By Alfred Noyes

      Sea By Katherine Mansfield

      Home Thoughts From The Sea By Robert Browning

      With Ships The Sea Was Sprinkled By William Wordsworth

      The Old Man Of The Sea By Oliver Wendell Holmes

      On A Sea Wall By Paul Laurence Dunbar

      The Sea Maid’s Song By Augusta Davies Webster

      The Gift Of The Sea By Rudyard Kipling

      The Mystic Sea By Paul Laurence Dunbar

      Written At Sea By William Scawen Blunt

      The Ship That Never Returned By Henry Clay Work

      The Doomed Ship By William Morris

      Exultation Is The Going by Emily Dickenson

      Exultation is the going

      Of an inland soul to sea,

      Past the houses -- past the headlands --

      Into deep Eternity --

      Bred as we, among the mountains,

      Can the sailor understand

      The divine intoxication

      Of the first league out from land?

      Sea Longing By Sara Teasdale

      A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall 

      Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand, 

      The ebbing tide forsakes the listless land 

      With the old murmur, long and musical; 

      The windy waves mount up and curve and fall, 

      And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow, 

      Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know, 

      For I was born the sea's eternal thrall. 

      I would that I were there and over me 

      The cold insistence of the tide would roll, 

      Quenching this burning thing men call the soul,  

      Then with the ebbing I should drift and be 

      Less than the smallest shell along the shoal, 

      Less than the sea-gulls

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