Woman in a rowing boat
Originally uploaded by National Media Museum
But soon I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the Pilot’s cheer;
My head was turned perforce away,
And I saw a boat appear.
The Pilot and the Pilot’s boy,
I heard them coming fast:
Dear Lord in Heaven! it was a joy
The dead men could not blast.
I saw a third [...]
World’s Columbian Exposition: Transportation Building, Chicago, United States, 1893.
Originally uploaded by Brooklyn Museum
Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
A man all light, a seraph-man,
On every corse there stood.
This seraph-band, each waved his hand:
It was a heavenly sight!
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light;
This seraph-band, each waved his [...]
The harbor, Frederiksted, Saint Croix island, Virgin Islands (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress
And the bay was white with silent light,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
In crimson colours came.
A little distance from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turned my eyes upon the deck -
Oh, Christ! what saw I there!
North and South Heads, Sydney, NSW
Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So smoothly it was strewn!
And on the bay the moonlight lay,
And the shadow of the Moon.
The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,
That stands above the rock:
The moonlight steeped in silentness
The steady weathercock.
Wollongong Harbour
Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection
Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
Is this mine own countree?
We drifted o’er the harbour-bar,
And I with sobs did pray -
O let me be awake, my God!
Or let me sleep alway.
Palm trees along the road, vicinity of Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress
It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek
Like a meadow-gale of spring -
It mingled strangely with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
On me [...]
Tree stripped by Geneva, N.Y. cyclone (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread.
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
But soon there breathed a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its [...]
Dead German corporal
Originally uploaded by Nationaal Archief
The pang, the curse, with which they died,
Had never passed away:
I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
Nor turn them up to pray.
And now this spell was snapt: once more
I viewed the ocean green,
And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen -
Almost every bay of the communication sap from Pear trench to Hamel Village contained dead bodies of the enemy
Originally uploaded by National Media Museum
I woke, and we were sailing on
As in a gentle weather:
‘Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high;
The dead men stood together.
All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fized on [...]
The remains of a massive star that exploded, perhaps being witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 386 A.D.
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution
(first voice)
‘But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?’
(second voice)
‘The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.
Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
Or we shall be belated:
For slow and slow [...]
Igreja da Misericórdia de Arouca, Portugal
Originally uploaded by Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
PART THE SIXTH
(first voice)
“‘But tell me, tell me! Speak again,
Thy soft response renewing -
What makes that ship drive on so fast?
What is the ocean doing?’
(second voice)
‘Still as a slave before his lord,
The ocean hath no blast;
His great bright eye most silently
Up to the [...]
Untitled
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution
The spirit who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.’
The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honeydew:
Quoth he, ‘The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.’ “
Man with a female spirit
Originally uploaded by National Media Museum
How long in that same fit I lay,
I have not to declare;
But ere my living life returned,
I heard and in my soul discerned
Two voices in the air.
‘Is it he?’ quoth one, ‘Is this the man?
By him who died on the cross,
Which his cruel bow he laid [...]
Trans-Atlantic power-boat DETROIT (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress
The Sun, right up above the mast,
Had fixed her to the ocean:
But in a minute she ‘gan stir,
With a short uneasy motion -
Backwards and forwards half her length
With a short uneasy motion.
Then, like a pawing horse let go,
She made a sudden bound:
It flung the blood into [...]
Fast to a floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay
Originally uploaded by National Maritime Museum
Till noon we quietly sailed on,
Yet never a breeze did breathe:
Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
Moved onward from beneath.
Under the keel nine fathom deep,
From the land of mist and snow,
The spirit slid: and it was he
That made the ship to go.
The [...]