A SEA that heaves with horror of the night, As maddened by the moon that hangs aghast With strain and torment of the ravening blast, Haggard as hell, a bleak blind bloody light; No shore but one red reef of rock in sight, Whereon the waifs of many a wreck were cast And shattered in the fierce nights overpast Wherein more souls toward hell than heaven took flight; And 'twixt the shark-toothed rocks and swallowing shoals A cry as out of hell from all these souls Sent through the sheer gorge of the slaughtering sea, Whose thousand throats, full-fed with life by death, Fill the black air with foam and furious breath; And over all these one star -- Chastity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLACK RUNNER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (1) by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS by ROBERT BURNS A WINTER TWILIGHT by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PRELUDE. THE WAYSIDE INN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE PLUMPUPPETS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION by WALT WHITMAN TWELVE SONNETS: 1. THY SWEETNESS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |