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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
A Sea-Prayer, William Stanley Braithwaite
Lord of wind and water
Where the ships go down
Reaching the sunrise,
Lifting like a crown,
Out of the deep-hidden
Wells of night and day—
Mind the great sea-farers
On the open way.
When the last lights darken
On the far coastline,
Wave and port and peril
Sea-Lord—all are thine.
Braithwaite (1878-1962) was an American poet, critic, editor, and anthologist. His maternal grandmother was a slave in North Carolina, and he was a professor of creative literature at Atlanta University before his retirement to Harlem.
---L.
Subject quote from In Memoriam CXVII, Alfred the Tennyson.
A Sea-Prayer, William Stanley Braithwaite
Lord of wind and water
Where the ships go down
Reaching the sunrise,
Lifting like a crown,
Out of the deep-hidden
Wells of night and day—
Mind the great sea-farers
On the open way.
When the last lights darken
On the far coastline,
Wave and port and peril
Sea-Lord—all are thine.
Braithwaite (1878-1962) was an American poet, critic, editor, and anthologist. His maternal grandmother was a slave in North Carolina, and he was a professor of creative literature at Atlanta University before his retirement to Harlem.
---L.
Subject quote from In Memoriam CXVII, Alfred the Tennyson.
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