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The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.
The Songs of Joy (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot) Song of the Sea from a Sefer Torah. The Song of the Sea (Hebrew: שירת הים, Shirat HaYam; also known as Az Yashir Moshe and Song of Moses, or Mi Chamocha) is a poem that appears in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible, at Exodus 15:1–18.
World Ocean Day (WOD) is an international day that takes place annually on 8 June. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1]
Every June 8th, World Oceans Day is held and given a theme to drive a given message forward. This year it is Healthy Oceans, Once a year, the United Nations puts a day aside to focus on the oceans ...
Like an ocean bird set free; Like the ocean bird, our home We'll find far out on the sea. (Chorus) A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep, The winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep, (the winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep). The land is no longer ...
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
It is a compilation of poems referring to the sea or the sea-shore. [1] Sea-Drift follows the section titled A Broadway Pageant, and precedes the section By The Roadside. The poems included in Sea-Drift are: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life; Tears; To the Man-of War Bird; Aboard at a Ship's Helm; On the ...
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