by Whitman · Cluster: Ship · Endurance
Abstract
A short rhymed lyric celebrating death as a joyful ship setting sail from shore; themes of death as voyage, joy and the sea.
Connections
Motifs: Death, Sea, Ship, Journey Themes & Concepts: Joy
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SONGS OF PARTING
Joy, shipmate, Joy!
(Pleas’d to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy.