| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | In the Harbor | | Possibilities |
| | | WHERE are the Poets, unto whom belong | |
| The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent | |
| Straight to the mark, and not from bows half bent, | |
| But with the utmost tension of the thong? | |
| Where are the stately argosies of song, | 5 |
| Whose rushing keels made music as they went | |
| Sailing in search of some new continent, | |
| With all sail set, and steady winds and strong? | |
| Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught | |
| In schools, some graduate of the field or street, | 10 |
| Who shall become a master of the art, | |
| An admiral sailing the high seas of thought, | |
| Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet | |
| For lands not yet laid down in any chart. | | | | |
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