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The term "ocean death" has been searched for 86 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on December 8th, 2004.
1. Ode To a Large Tuna in the Market - written by Pablo Neruda
From Elementary Odes.
Read 4189 times on Poetry Connection.
Among the market greens,
a bullet
from the ocean
depths,
a swimming
projectile,
I saw you,
dead.
All around you
were lettuces,
sea foam
of the earth,
carrots,
grapes,
but
of the ocean
truth,
of the unknown,
of... (Read full poem)
2. Examination at the Womb-Door - written by Ted Hughes
Read 2950 times on Poetry Connection.
Who owns those scrawny little feet? Death.
Who owns this bristly scorched-looking face? Death.
Who owns these still-working lungs? Death.
Who owns this utility coat of muscles? Death.
Who owns these unspeakable guts? Death.
Who... (Read full poem)
3. I Sleep a Lot - written by Czeslaw Milosz
Read 973 times on Poetry Connection.
I sleep a lot and read St. Thomas Aquinas
Or The Death of God (that's a Protestant book).
To the right the bay as if molten tin,
Beyond the bay, city, beyond the city, ocean,
Beyond the ocean, ocean, till Japan.
To the left dry hills with... (Read full poem)
4. For Music - written by Lord Byron
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THERE be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the... (Read full poem)
5. There Be None of Beauty's Daughters - written by Lord Byron
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There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like Thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charméd ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem... (Read full poem)
6. A Grave - written by Marianne Moore
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Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as
you have to it yourself,
it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
but you cannot stand in the middle of this;
the sea has nothing to give but a... (Read full poem)
7. 486. Song—Inconstancy in love - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1794.
Read 903 times on Poetry Connection.
LET not Woman e’er complain
Of inconstancy in love;
Let not Woman e’er complain
Fickle Man is apt to rove:
Look abroad thro’ Nature’s range,
Nature’s mighty Law is change,
Ladies, would it not seem strange
Man should... (Read full poem)
8. Milton (Alcaics) - written by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
God-gifted organ-voice of England,
Milton, a name to resound for ages;
Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries,
Tower, as... (Read full poem)
9. Death And Birth - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Death and birth should dwell not near together:
Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether
Death and birth.
Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth
Seems that girds them each with... (Read full poem)
10. On His Blindness - written by John Milton
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When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he... (Read full poem)
11. Our Eyes - written by Nazim Hikmet
Read 1642 times on Poetry Connection.
Our eyes
are limpid
drops of water.
In each drop exists
a tiny sign
of our genius
which has given life to cold iron.
Our eyes
are limpid
drops of... (Read full poem)
12. Asia: From Prometheus Unbound - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read 948 times on Poetry Connection.
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
And thine doth like an angel sit
Beside a helm conducting it,
Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
It seems to float ever, for... (Read full poem)
13. The Wreck Of The `Derry Castle' - written by Henry Lawson
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Day of ending for beginnings!
Ocean hath another innings,
Ocean hath another score;
And the surges sing his winnings,
And the surges shout his winnings,
And the surges shriek his winnings,
All along the sullen shore.
Sing another... (Read full poem)
14. Sonnet 19 - written by John Milton
From The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Read 1259 times on Poetry Connection.
XIX
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He... (Read full poem)
15. 117. Song—Farewell to Eliza - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1786.
Read 957 times on Poetry Connection.
FROM thee, Eliza, I must go,
And from my native shore;
The cruel fates between us throw
A boundless ocean’s roar:
But boundless oceans, roaring wide,
Between my love and me,
They never, never can divide
My heart and soul from thee.... (Read full poem)
16. Second Best - written by Rupert Brooke
Read 726 times on Poetry Connection.
Here in the dark, O heart;
Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,
And Silence, and the warm strange smell of clover;
Clear-visioned, though it break you; far apart
From the dead best, the dear and old delight;
Throw down your dreams of... (Read full poem)
17. Sonnet 16 - written by John Milton
From The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Read 1228 times on Poetry Connection.
XVI
When I consider how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least... (Read full poem)
19. Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read 944 times on Poetry Connection.
The sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon's transparent might,
The breath of the moist air is light,
Around its unexpanded buds;
Like many a voice of one... (Read full poem)
20. Magellanic Penguin - written by Pablo Neruda
Read 6290 times on Poetry Connection.
Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle
and a questioning innocence
dressed in night and snow:
The mother smiles at the sailor,
the fisherman at the astronaunt,
but the child child does not smile
when he looks at the bird child,
and... (Read full poem)
21. Enigmas - written by Pablo Neruda
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You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with
his golden feet?
I reply, the ocean knows this.
You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent
bell? What is it waiting for?
I tell you it is waiting for time,... (Read full poem)
22. 51. On Tam the Chapman - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1784.
Read 1099 times on Poetry Connection.
AS Tam the chapman on a day,
Wi’Death forgather’d by the way,
Weel pleas’d, he greets a wight so famous,
And Death was nae less pleas’d wi’ Thomas,
Wha cheerfully lays down his pack,
And there blaws up a hearty crack:
His... (Read full poem)
23. Ode To Salt - written by Pablo Neruda
From Elementary Odes.
Read 5506 times on Poetry Connection.
This salt
in the saltcellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
I know
you won't
believe me,
but
it sings,
salt sings, the skin
of the salt mines
sings
with a mouth smothered
by the earth.
I shivered in those solitudes
when I heard
the... (Read full poem)
24. And Death Shall Have No Dominion - written by Dylan Thomas
From 25 Poems.
Published in 1936.
Read 56022 times on Poetry Connection.
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be... (Read full poem)
25. The Harbour - written by Eavan Boland
From Colony.
Published in 1998.
Read 959 times on Poetry Connection.
This harbour was made by art and force.
And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire.
And holds the sea behind its barrier
less than five miles from my house.
Lord be with us say the makers of a nation.
Lord look down say the builders of... (Read full poem)
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