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George Sterling: The Ashes in the Sea
The Ashes in the SeaN. M. F.George SterlingWhither, with blue and pleading eyes, — Whither, with cheeks that held the light Of winter's dawn in cloudless skies, Evadne, was thy flight?Such…Richard Hovey: The Sea Gypsy
The Sea GypsyRichard HoveyI am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.There's a schooner in the offing, With her topsails…Orrick Johns: The Sea-Lands
The Sea-LandsOrrick JohnsWould I were on the sea-lands, Where winds know how to sting; And in the rocks at midnight The lost long murmurs sing.Would I were with my first love To hear the…Lewis Carroll: A Sea Dirge
A Sea DirgeThere are certain things—as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three— That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.Pour some…Sara Teasedale: From the Sea
From the SeaAll beauty calls you to me, and you seem, Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea, To reach me. You are as the wind I breathe Here on the ship's sun-smitten topmost deck, With…Sara Teasedale: Rivers to the Sea
Rivers to the SeaBut what of her whose heart is troubled by it, The mother who would soothe and set him free, Fearing the song's storm-shaken ecstasy— Oh, as the moon that has no power to…Sara Teasedale: Sea Longing
Sea LongingA 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…Aesop's Fables: The Rivers and the Sea
by Aesop The Gardener and His DogThe Lion In LoveThe Rivers and the Sea Once upon a time all the Rivers combined to protest against the action of the Sea in making their waters salt. "When…Brewer's: Half-seas Over
Almost up with one. Now applied to a person almost dead drunk. The phrase seems to be a corruption of the Dutch op-zee zober, “over-sea beer,” a strong, heady beverage introduced into…Brewer's: Dead-Sea Fruit
Fair to the eye, but nauseous to the taste; full of promise, but without reality. (See Apples Of Sodom.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dead SetDead Sea A…Trending
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