"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...WE FACE THE FUTURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON REMEMBERED WOMEN by CARL SANDBURG GOLD COAST CUSTOMS by EDITH SITWELL ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A VOYAGE TO CYTHERA by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THE BUSY HEART by RUPERT BROOKE INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |