FOREWORD
SEA POEMS
BY CALE YOUNG RICE
SEA-HOARDINGS
THE SHORE'S SONG TO THE SEA
TO A FIREFLY BY THE SEA
INVOCATION
(From a High Cliff)
I KNOW YOUR HEART, O SEA!
A SEA-GHOST
FINITUDE
I
II
THE COLONEL'S STORY
COSMISM
OFF THE IRISH COAST
THE FAIRIES OF GOD
THE SONG OF THE HOMESICK GAEL
(In the characteristic minor of a recent literary movement)
PAGEANTS OF THE SEA
A SONG OF THE OLD VENETIANS
BASKING
SAPPHO'S DEATH SONG
(On her sea-cliff in Leucady)
THE WIND'S WORD
SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS
THE SONG OF THE STORM-SPIRITS
THE GREAT SEDUCER
K'U-KIANG
TYPHOON
(At Hong-kong)
PENANG
NIGHTS ON THE INDIAN OCEAN
SIGHTING ARABIA
"ALL'S WELL"
SOMNAMBULISM
CHARTINGS
THE TRAIL FROM THE SEA
HAUNTED SEAS
SEA LURE
(The Maine Coast)
SONGS TO A. H. R.
III
IV
V
VI
VII
NEED OF STORM
(Naples-on-the-Gulf)
A FLORIDA INTERLUDE
A FLORIDA BOATING SONG
DAWN-BLISS
ATAVISM
RE-RECKONING
TO THE AFTERNOON MOON, AT SEA
PATHS
FROM A NORTHERN BEACH
PASSAGE
ALEEN
TO A SOLITARY SEA-GULL
INEFFABLE THINGS
THE SONG OF A SEA-FARER
WAVES
IN A STORM
(To a Petrel)
AFTER THEIR PARTING
(A Woman Speaks)
A WORD'S MAGIC
SEA RHAPSODY
(Out of Hong-kong)
IN AN ORIENTAL HARBOUR
UNDER THE SKY
A SONG FOR HEALING
(On the South Seas)
A SINGHALESE LOVE LAMENT
THE CITY
FULL TIDE
THE HERDING
ON THE MAINE COAST
SEANCE
A SIDMOUTH LAD
WIDOWED
TO THE SEA
SEA-MAD
(A Breton Maid)
THE ATHEIST
AT THE HELM
(Nova Scotia)
IMPERTURBABLE
WASTE
RESURGENCE
LIFE'S ANSWER
AS THE TIDE COMES IN
SENSE-SWEETNESS
TIDALS
A SAILOR'S WIFE
TO SEA!
GIVE OVER, O SEA!
THE NUN
LAST SIGHT OF LAND
