The Sea Comments
THE SEA! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth’s wide regions round;
...
Read full text
A luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her.
Roses are red, violets are blue, Barry Cornwall is such a great poet, I am too! ! : -D (not really! !)
Love this, it shows a passion for sea that but a seafarer could only see and beleive
Delivering Poems Around The World
Poems are the property of their respective owners. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge...
12/6/2025 8:09:07 AM # 1.0.0
My 6th grade teacher gave us an assignment to read and memorize a poem. I actually read several dozens of poems but this one 'spoke to me ' and more than half a century later I still remember it and love reciting it