| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Mariners’ Song | | By Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| | | TO sea, to sea! The calm is o’er; | |
| The wanton water leaps in sport, | |
| And rattles down the pebbly shore; | |
| The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, | |
| And unseen Mermaids’ pearly song | 5 |
| Comes bubbling up, the weeds among. | |
| Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar: | |
| To sea, to sea! the calm is o’er. | |
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| To sea, to sea! our wide-wing’d bark | |
| Shall billowy cleave its sunny way, | 10 |
| And with its shadow, fleet and dark, | |
| Break the caved Tritons’ azure day, | |
| Like mighty eagle soaring light | |
| O’er antelopes on Alpine height. | |
| The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, | 15 |
| The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! | | | | |
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