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I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship.")
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Buck Mulligan, in Ulysses, ch. 1 of 1984 edition (1922).)
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Crash on crash of the sea,
straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents,
raging against the world, furious.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Sea Heroes.")
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For she walks above earth,
along the sea-coast,
and across the salt trail
of the sea-drift.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hippolytus.")
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Thus to sea god,
gift of sea wrack;
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hermonax.")
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And now the winter sea:
Within her hollow rind
What sleek facility
Of sea-conceited scop
To plumb the nether mind!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Seasons of the Soul.")
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Pour meted words
of sea-hawks and gulls
and sea-birds that cry
discords.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Wind Sleepers.")
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
(Hermann Broch (1886-1951), Austrian novelist. The Spell, foreword (1976, trans. 1987).)
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It is the sea that whitens the roof.
The sea drifts through the winter air.
It is the sea that the north wind makes.
The sea is in the falling snow.
This gloom is the darkness of the sea.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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Whirl up, sea—
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. Oread (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press CP-Dool.)
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