by Whitman · Cluster: Sea · Water
Abstract
A short free-verse apostrophe to Long Island as sea-beauty between ocean and sound; themes of place, the sea and nature.
Connections
Motifs: Sea, Nature Themes & Concepts: Beauty Forms & Genres: Lyric Settings: Sea (2)
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls
dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!