The Summer Sea
After the Japanese manner
Unbroken by a ripple, but yet drifting
Onward in long wide billows, vast and free,
Upon its bosom ship and shadow lifting,
Beneath the sunset lies the summer sea.
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Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935)
from Poetry, August 1915
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]
Nathan Haskell Dole biography
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