"THOU Ship of Earth, with Death, and Birth, and Life, and Sex aboard, And fires of Desires burning hotly in the hold, I fear thee, O! I fear thee, for I hearthe tongue and sword At battle on the deck, and the wild mutineers are bold! "The dewdrop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky, But all the deck is wet with blood and stains the crystal red. A pilot, GOD, a pilot! for the helm is left awry, And the best sailors in the ship lie there among the dead!" PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA, 1868. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE RHINE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY by RICHARD CORBET THE TEMPERAMENTS by EZRA POUND ODES I, 5 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS NEW YEAR'S EVE by MATHILDE BLIND |