Poems/Texts about the Sea

[.:Nevermore:.]

Hi everyone :)

does anyone now a nice HAPPY short text or poem (or a passage of one) about the Sea? I need one for a picture I'm making for someone for Xmas, but all the texts I've found so far are quite sad and I'm really trying to give the pic a happy atmosphere.

Thanks :)

[.:Nevermore:.]

does anyone *know*, sorry ;)

[.:Nevermore:.]

text or poems about lighthouses will do too :)

[Nightshade]

Research Yipeeeeee!!
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[Nightshade]

here is one:D
To Readers Of Sea Poetry"
C. Robert Hilton
There are wonderful verses that sing of the sea.
A lot of what's written is true.
But reading it while you sit under a tree
Will give an inaccurate view.

You may read of the glorious tropical moon
Reflected on gunmetal swells,
But your girl isn't there, and you see it alone,
And you're aching, but nobody tells.

Your watches at times are just writing the log,
And looking at sea after sea,
And then in dense traffic you run into fog,
Alert as you ever can be.

The power unharnessed in one living storm
Is a marvel that catches the breath.
It always excites me as long as I'm warm;
In not too much danger of death.

To deny the romance of the sea is unjust,
But what is "Sea Fever's" allure?
"...go down to the seas again," well if you must
You're in need of the money for sure.

Sea life is just life with its doldrums and gales,
Its reefs and hospitable shores.
But it's real, and not a collection of tales,
And it's mine, but the fantasy's yours.


and another :D
Precious Jewel of the Sea


The silvery moonlight glistens on the waves,
I keep my eyes open--watching for a sign. . . .
There it is--the flash of a tail;
The wafting smell of the sea air seems divine!

Her eyes . . .
Like stars in the enameled night sky!
Her hair . . .
Like the black, ebony cloak of night!
Her teeth . . .
Like pearls in the depths of oceans!
Her lips . . .
Like the dark, ruby red of wine!

She climbs out of the dark water,
Glancing furtively all around--
Making sure her solitude none shall invade. . . .
Ah! My sweet, cherished Mermaid!


By jennifer ashraf,

[Virgil]

Try Mathew Arnold's "Dover Beach". The last stanza is timeless, one of those pieces that you memorize. Of course I had a memory once.

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.


Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

[starrwriter]

How about humor about the sea for your card?

I hate cruise liners. Going on a sea voyage is like being locked up in jail with the chance of drowning thrown in.

[Scheherazade]

I am sorry that it is not as literary as some of my better read friends' suggestions but this was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this thread:
Frank Sinatra - Somewhere Beyond The Sea Lyrics

Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waitin' for me
My lover stands on golden sand
And watches the ships that go sailin'

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watchin' for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms I'd go sailin'

It's far beyond the star
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'

I know beyond a doubt,
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet, I know we'll meet
Beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'.

[Virgil]

I've never heard that song before.

[.:Nevermore:.]

Thanks guys :)

And Virgil, are you serious? You've never heard Somewhere Beyond the Sea? It's a classic :)

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And just so you have an idea of what I'm talking about anyway, here's the pic as it is at the moment:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/406/meer8zq.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=meer8zq.jpg)

[Virgil]

Really? Well the lyrics don't ring a bell. Perhaps if I heard the song. I'll sear the internet.

[Virgil]

Thanks guys :)

And Virgil, are you serious? You've never heard Somewhere Beyond the Sea? It's a classic :)

Well I checked it on the internet. It's called "Beyond the Sea" and apparently a Bobby Darin song, which Frank Sinatra probably covered. I didn't search long enough to find a version by Franky. It does seem like it was a very well known song. I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of it.

[.:Nevermore:.]

ah, nervermind ;)
I couldn't have told you the original singer either, but one just knows some version of the song, it's used quite a lot in movies, I'd say

[Nightshade]

Really I can thinjk of 2 covers in the last 5 years Westlife (awful ) and Robbie williams( notthat bad)

[.:Nevermore:.]

I haven't heard Westlife sing it, but Robbie's is quite okay :)

[Monica]

Can it be about the ocean??

U2 - The Ocean

A picture in grey
Dorian Gray
Just me by the sea

And I felt like a star
I felt the world could go far
If they listened
To what I said

Washes my feet
Washed the feet
Splashes the soul of my shoes :D

[.:Nevermore:.]

texts/poems about the Ocean are of course welcome too, thanks Monica :)

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Thread closed

I'm using the first verse of C. Robert Hilton's "To Readers Of Sea Poetry"'.

Thanks again everyone :D