Poems about sea-sand (20 Poems)
The Island: Canto II. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer’s Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet’s softest shade,And hear the warbling birds I the damsels said:The wood-dove from the forest depth shall coo,Like voices of the Gods … Continue reading
Miriam (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
One Sabbath day my friend and IAfter the meeting, quietlyPassed from the crowded village lanes,White with dry dust for lack of rains,And climbed the neighboring slope, with feetSlackened and heavy from the heat,Although the day was wellnigh done,And the low … Continue reading
Mother’s Birthday Review (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
Brother Bill.To have a good birthday for a grown-up person is very difficult indeed;We don’t give it up, for Mother says the harder things are, the harder you must try till you succeed.Still, our birthdays are different; we want so … Continue reading
Our Garden (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
The winter is gone; and at first Jack and I were sad,Because of the snow-man’s melting, but now we are glad;For the spring has come, and it’s warm, and we’re allowed to garden in the afternoon;And summer is coming, and … Continue reading
A Hymn of The Sea (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
The sea is mighty, but a mightier swaysHis restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scoopedHis boundless gulfs and built his shore, thy breath,That moved in the beginning o’er his face,Moves o’er it evermore. The obedient wavesTo its strong motion roll, … Continue reading
Song of Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days. I hid in the solar glory,I am dumb in the pealing song,I rest on the pitch of the torrent,In slumber … Continue reading
By The Seaside : The Lighthouse (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away,The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard … Continue reading
Chillingham (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
I Through the sunny garden The humming bees are still; The fir climbs the heather, The heather climbs the hill. The low clouds have riven A little rift through. The hill climbs to heaven, Far away and blue. II O the high valley, the little low hill, And … Continue reading
Two Journeys (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Under the straight, still Indian sunWent forth a pompous train,To see some due obeisance doneFor England’s name and reign.Gaily the leader stooped and smiledOver his young wife’s breast,For there she hid her firstborn childWith a whispered “Rest, love, rest!”Through shining … Continue reading
Cavour (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
I met a woman, weeping by the sea,Not patiently, as women sit and weep,But running, white with passion, wild with fear,And as she ran she cried, “Cavour is dead!”And cast the grey sea-sand upon her hair,And cried, beating her breast, … Continue reading