| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Spanish Point | | By Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| | | THE WATERS—O the waters!—wild and glooming, | |
| Beneath the stormy pall that shrouds the sky, | |
| On, through the deep’ning mist more darkly looming, | |
| Plumed with the pallid foam funereally, | |
| Onward, like death, they come, the rocks entombing! | 5 |
| Nor thunder-knell is needful from on high; | |
| Nor sound of signal gun, momently booming | |
| O’er the disastrous deep; nor seaman’s cry! | |
| And yet, if aught were wanting, manifold | |
| Mementoes haunt those reefs; how that proud Host | 10 |
| Of Spain and Rome so smitten were of old, | |
| By God’s decree, along this fatal coast, | |
| And over all their purple and their gold, | |
| Mitre and helm and harp, the avenging waters rolled! | | | | |
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