A Sea Child by Bliss Carman. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

A Sea Child

Bliss Carman (1861–1929)


THE LOVER of child Marjory
Had one white hour of life brim full;
Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
Hath him to lull.

The daughter of child Marjory	5
Hath in her veins, to beat and run,
The glad indomitable sea,
The strong white sun.