Thomas Edward Brown Sea Poems
- 1. Statio Quarta
We have not seen the sun for many days,
But now through East-wind haze
He makes a shift
To send a luminous drift,
... - 2. I Wonder
I wonder if in that far isle,
Some child is growing now, like me
When I was child : care-pricked, yet healed the while
With balm of rock and sea.
... - 3. Ibant Obscuae
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,
Dark-robed descending to the sea,
So slow, so silent of all speech,
And visible to me
... - 4. Old John
Old John, if I could sit with you a day
At Abram's feet upon the asphodel,
There, while the grand old patriarch dreamed away,
To you my life's whole progress I would tell;
... - 5. Land, Ho!
I know â??tis but a loom of land,
Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice,
I know I cannot hear His voice
Upon the shore, nor see Him stand;
... - 6. Risus Dei
Methinks in Him there dwells alway
A sea of laughter very deep,
Where the leviathans leap,
And little children play,
... - 7. Ibant Obscuræ
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,
Dark-robed descending to the sea,
So slow, so silent of all speech,
And visible to me
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