Cruiselady83 Posted September 23, 2015 #1 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Please feel free to post any of your favourite poems or quotes about Ships,The Sea or Whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiselady83 Posted September 23, 2015 Author #2 Share Posted September 23, 2015 The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use. But £ is of great use. The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea. Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 'Onward!'the sailors cry; Carry the lass that's born to be queen Over the sea to Skye No better friend than a long voyage at sea The sea! the sea! the open sea!The blue, the fresh, the ever free! hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmHarborCruiser Posted October 23, 2015 #3 Share Posted October 23, 2015 The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum60 Posted May 18, 2016 #4 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Not a poem, but Gordon Lightfoot sang a wonderful song about the loss of the Great Lakes iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald that went down in the late 1970s. The song had some wonderful lines in it. Caution: if you listen to it the music sticks with you for hours. Great tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanandJim Posted June 2, 2016 #5 Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) Written by Poet Laureate John Masefield on the occasion of the Launch of the Queen Mary in 1939" For ages you were rock, far below light, Crushed, without shape, earth's unregarded bone. Then Man in all the marvel of his might Quarried you out and burned you from the stone. Then, being pured to essence, you were naught But weight and hardness, body without nerve; Then Man in all the marvel of his thought Smithied you into form of leap and curve; And took you, so, and bent you to his vast, Intense great world of passionate design, Curve after changing curving, braced and mast To stand all tumult that can tumble brine, And left you, this, a rampart of a ship, Long as a street and lofty as a tower, Ready to glide in thunder from the slip And shear the water with majesty of power. I long to see you leaping to the urge Of the great engines, rolling as you go, Parting the seas in sunder in a surge, Shredding a trackway like a mile of snow. With all the wester streaming from your hull And all gear twanging shrilly as you race, And effortless above your stern a gull Leaning upon the blast and keeping pace. May shipwreck and collision, fog and fire, Rock, shoal and other evils of the sea, Be kept from you; and may the heart's desire Of those who speed your launching come to be Edited June 2, 2016 by StanandJim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philly Steve Posted June 5, 2016 #6 Share Posted June 5, 2016 StanandJim, thank you for a wonderful post. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blythe Posted July 3, 2016 #7 Share Posted July 3, 2016 One of my favorites: Big Steamers by Rudyard Kipling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davechipp74 Posted November 18, 2016 #8 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner See his eye as he stops one of three Mesmerises one of the wedding guests Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the Sea And the music plays on, as the bride passes by Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale. Driven south to the land of the snow and ice To a place where nobody's been Through the snow fog flies on the albatross Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings. And the ship sails on, back to the North Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on The mariner kills the bird of good omen His shipmates cry against what he's done But when the fog clears, they justify him And make themselves a part of the crime. Sailing on and on and North across the sea Sailing on and on and North 'till all is calm The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner About his neck, the dead bird is hung. And the curse goes on and on and on at sea And the thirst goes on and on for them and me "Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink." [sAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)] There, calls the mariner there comes a ship over the line But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide. See... onward she comes Onwards she nears, out of the sun See... she has no crew She has no life, wait but there's two Death and she Life in Death, they throw their dice for the crew She wins the Mariner and he belongs to her now. Then ... crew one by one They drop down dead, two hundred men She... She, Life in Death. She lets him live, her chosen one. [NARRATIVE] "One after one by the star dogged moon, too quick for groan or sigh Each turned his face with a ghastly pang and cursed me with his eye Four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan), With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, they dropped down one by one." [sAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)] The curse it lives on in their eyes The Mariner he wished he'd die Along with the sea creatures But they lived on, so did he. And by the light of the moon He prays for their beauty not doom With heart he blesses them God's creatures all of them too. Then the spell starts to break The albatross falls from his neck Sinks down like lead into the Sea Then down in falls comes the rain. Hear the groans of the long dead seamen See them stir and they start to rise Bodies lifted by good spirits None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes And revenge is still sought, penance starts again Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on. Now the curse is finally lifted And the Mariner sights his home Spirits go from the long dead bodies Form their own light and the Mariner's left alone And then a boat came sailing towards him It was a joy he could not believe The Pilot's boat, his son and the hermit Penance of life will fall onto Him. And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea And the hermit shrives the mariner of his sins The Mariner's bound to tell of his story To tell his tale wherever he goes To teach God's word by his own example That we must love all things that God made. And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man And the tale goes on and on and on. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjgdjg Posted December 29, 2016 #9 Share Posted December 29, 2016 In a recent Traveler magazine article, Sigourney Weaver quoted this from the song "Bon Voyage" of the musical "Anything Goes": "And there's no cure like travel To help you unravel The worries of living today. When the poor brain is cracking There's nothing like packing A suitcase and sailing away." Wouldn't you agree???! - Musing About Cruising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisingcoppertop Posted January 15, 2017 #10 Share Posted January 15, 2017 This isn't about ships, but it a song I gave to my husband on our 29th anniversary cruise: I wish the words were my own... My love is deep as the sea that flows forever, You ask me when will it end I tell you never. My love is bright as the sun That shines forever, You ask me when will it die I tell you never. The world may disappear like a castle of sand, But I'll be waiting here With my heart in my hand. My love I love you so much Now and forever, You ask me when will it die I tell you never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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