Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Oceanica: Vol. XXXI. 1876–79. | | | | Miscellaneous: The Ocean | | The Sea in Calm | | Bryan Waller Procter (1787–1874) |
| | | LOOK what immortal floods the sunset pours | |
| Upon us! Mark! how still (as though in dreams | |
| Bound) the once wild and terrible ocean seems! | |
| How silent are the winds! No billow roars: | |
| But all is tranquil as Elysian shores! | 5 |
| The silver margin which aye runneth round | |
| The moon-enchanted sea, hath here no sound; | |
| Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors! | |
| What! is the giant of the ocean dead, | |
| Whose strength was all unmatched beneath the sun? | 10 |
| No; he reposes! Now his toils are done, | |
| More quiet than the babbling brooks is he. | |
| So mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, | |
| And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! | | | | |
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