Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...high Olympus that fall, Thou dost on coral boughs suspend, old Ocean divine. A diver in the sea of love my song is, that fain Thy glory would to all commend, old Ocean divine. I, like the moon, beneath thy waves with yearning would plunge; Thence might I like the sun ascend, old Ocean divine. Richard Chenevix Trench. In the Isle of Mull. """THE clouds are gathering in their western dome, Deep-drenched with sunlight, as a fleece with dew, While I with baffled effort still pursue And track these waters toward their mountain home, --In vain--though cataract, and mimic foam, And island-spots, round which the streamlet threw Its sister arms, which joyed to meet anew, Have lured me on, and won me still to roam; Till now, coy nymph, unseen thy waters pass, Or faintly struggle through the twinkling grass, --And I, thy springs unvisited, return. Is it that thou art revelling with thy peers? Or dost thou feed a solitary urn, Else unreplenished, with thy own sad tears? R. C. Trench. HP HIS winter eve how soft! how mild! How calm the earth! how calm the sea! The earth is like a weary child, And ocean chants its lullaby. A little murmur in mine ear! A little ripple at my feet! They only make the silence here, Which they disturb not, more complete. R. C. Trench. The Light-house Girl. A MID the Channel's wiles and fell decoys Where "Casket Beacons" watch the Siren-sea, A girl was reared who knew nor flower nor tree Nor breath of grass at dawn, yet had high joys: The moving lawns whose verdure never cloys Were hers. At last she sailed to Alderney, But there she pined. "The bustling world" said she, "Is all too full of trouble and of noise." The storm child fainting for her home the storm Had winds for...