But when tempests rose, she hastened down below the stormy billows, to where all was calm and still, and with her sister Spirits waited till it should be fair again, listening sadly, meanwhile, to the cries of those whom the wild waves wrecked and cast into the angry
sea, and who soon came floating down, pale and cold, to the Spirits' pleasant home; then they wept pitying tears above the lifeless forms, and laid them in quiet graves, where flowers bloomed, and jewels sparkled in the sand.
As for me, having some money in my pocket, I travelled to London by land; and there, as well as on the road, had many struggles with myself what course of life I should take, and whether I should go home or to
sea.
Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in--would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the
sea as possible.
After wandering over these vast continents, the eye is attracted by the still greater
seas. Not only their formation, but their situation and aspect remind one of the terrestrial oceans; but again, as on earth, these
seas occupy the greater portion of the globe.
We ran along afterwards by the side of the island, but were entertained with no other prospect than of a mountainous country, and of rocks that jutted out over the
sea, and seemed ready to fall into it.
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the
sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling my ANNABEL LEE; So that her high-born kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up, in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the
sea.
Jove sent me; it was no doing of mine; who could possibly want to come all this way over the
sea where there are no cities full of people to offer me sacrifices or choice hecatombs?
All ye who seek forgetting, Leave frowns and fears and fretting, Here by the
sea Are fair and free To give you peace and petting.
In that way we went about two miles, but without ever obtaining the greatest depths of the Indian
Sea, which soundings of seven thousand fathoms have never reached.
Rafael, some Spanish missionaries [14] encountered "many icebergs, some great, some small, and others middle-sized," in a narrow arm of the
sea, on the 22nd of the month corresponding with our June, and in a latitude corresponding with that of the Lake of Geneva !
And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to
sea.
Nay, the time came when I took joy in the run of the masthead and in the clinging on by my legs at that precarious height while I swept the
sea with glasses in search of the boats.
