[PDF] Songs And Sonnets Of The Sea eBook

Author : J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sea poetry
ISBN : 9781841597461

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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless

Author : Epes Sargent
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
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ISBN : 9781359635501

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Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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"Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land" by Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Godfrey Leland was an American humorist and folklorist. This book is a collection of sea shanties and poems that describe the beauty of lands around the world. The Sailor's Farewell, Mackerel Signs, True Blue, The Story of Samuel Jackson, Zion Jersey Boggs, The Ballad of the Green Old Man, and Carrying Coals are just some of the works in this collection.

Author : Thomas Fleming Day
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Songs of Sea and Sail is compilation of sailor songs by Thomas Fleming Day. Day was a sailboat designer, sailboat racer and avid friend of sailor songs. Contents: The Mermaid's Song, Trafalgar, When, The Forsaken Port, An Early Moonset, On the Bridge and many more.