greykit.poetry — #sea

• 1889 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Crossing the Bar
  Demeter and Other Poems

  Tennyson's valedictory lyric — written in a single sitting, placed by his own wish at the close of every volume of his work — hopes for no mourning when the tide bears him out, and to see his Pilot face to face.

  #elegy#death#faith#sea#1880s
• 1845 [edgar-allan-poe] The City in the Sea
  Poems (1849)

  Death has reared himself a throne in a strange city far down within the dim West, where no heaven-light reaches and no wind disturbs the melancholy waters — until Hell itself shall rise to do that sunken city reverence.

  #gothic#death#sea#1840s
• 1842 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Break, Break, Break
  Poems (1842)

  Waves break on cold gray stones — the fisherman's boy shouts, the sailor lad sings, the stately ships go on, but the tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me.

  #lyric#elegy#grief#sea#1840s
• 1798 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  Lyrical Ballads

  A mariner shoots an albatross and is cursed to wander the earth, telling his tale of guilt, penance, and hard-won grace.

  #ballad#narrative#sea#supernatural#1790s