Sea Song

A stiff salty wind was blowing from the sea. Over the pine trees in the meadow the rooks were reeling and screaming. Gray clouds covered the sky, and the waves threw themselves against the rocky coast. Virginia Olcott

Sea Life

Pierre had never known the sea. It was a new world to him, with its endless horizons and its great skies above the toss and tumble of the waves. He had known nothing like a ship, making her way mysteriously across these surging wastes, sometimes fleeing before the wind and sometimes stubbornly tacking back and……

Wonder of the Ocean.

Every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixed up with his destiny. While he is yet a baby, lying in his cradle, he hears the dull, far-off boom of the breakers; when he is older, he wanders by the sandy shore, watching the waves that come plunging up the beach……

The Little Waves of Breffny

BY EVA GORE-BOOTH The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea, And there is traffic in it and many a horse and cart, But the little roads of Cloonagh are dearer far to me, And the little roads of Cloonagh go rambling through my heart. A great storm from the ocean goes……

A Town on the Waves

To the end of his days, Harvey will never forget that sight. The sun was just clear of the horizon they had not seen for nearly a week, and his low red light struck into the riding-sails of three fleets of anchored schooners – one to the north, one to the westward, and one to……

Ida Lewis: Keeper of the Lighthouse

Winter came with its howling winds and frozen bay. A terrific storm was blowing from the north; snow was driving from every direction and it was hardly possible to stand on one’s feet because of the fury of the gale. Ida lighted her beacon of warning to ships at sea, and rejoiced as she saw……

Storm at Sea

The captain’s voice was stifled by a powerful clap of thunder, the start of a deafening symphony. The heavens erupted in flames, bathing the storm-tossed sea in a sinister light. Lightning streaked the air in a thousand patterns, tearing through the sky, darting about the ship and slicing beneath the waves, as frightening roars filled……

The Silence of the Sea

What I most love about the sea is its silence. For the loud noises that a man at sea remembers are not of the sea itself – no, not even in a gale of wind – but of battle between the wind and what it encounters: rigging or the ship’s side, or canvas, or the……

At the Sea-Side

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup. In every hole the sea came up Till it could come no more.

A Sea-song

BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft……