SEA POEMS

BY

CALE YOUNG RICE

AUTHOR OF

"WRAITHS AND REALITIES," "TRAILS SUNWARD," "COLLECTED POEMS," ETC.

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1921


Copyright, 1921, by
The Century Co.

TO
HARRISON S. MORRIS
A HATER OF SHAM AND PRETENSE,
A LOVER OF BEAUTY AND TRUTH,
A FIRM FRIEND.

FOREWORD

The poems of this volume, gathered here after many requests, are, with a few exceptions, from my previous lyrical publications. They are also in a real sense an intimate record. For the sea has often enough seemed to me almost as a vast external subconsciousness in which the forces of my being—as well as the world's—were at play.

Cale Young Rice.

Louisville, Ky., August, 1921.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Sea-Hoardings 3

The Shore's Song to the Sea 5

To a Firefly by the Sea 9

Invocation 11

I Know Your Heart, O Sea! 11

A Sea-Ghost 13

Finitude 15

The Colonel's Story 16

Cosmism 21

Off the Irish Coast 22

The Fairies of God 23

The Song of the Homesick Gael 24

Pageants of the Sea 26

A Song of the Old Venetians 29

Basking 30

Sappho's Death Song 32

The Wind's Word 33

Submarine Mountains 34

The Song of the Storm-Spirits 36

The Great Seducer 37

K'u-Kiang 38

Typhoon 39

Penang 41

Nights on the Indian Ocean 42

Sighting Arabia 44

"All's Well" 45

Somnambulism 47

Chartings 48

The Trail from the Sea 50

Haunted Seas 54

Sea Lure 54

Songs to A. H. R.

I Minglings 56
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