WILLIAM WETMORE STORY-

From He or She; or, a Poet's Portfolio

From Cleopatra (the Nile).

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE-

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[From The Faerie Queene, Book ii.,
Canto xii.]

WITH that the rolling sea, resounding soft,

In his big base them fitly answered;

And on the rocke the waves breaking aloft
A solemne Meane unto them measured.

EDMUND SPENSER.

[From King Richard III., Act i., Scene iv.]

LORD, Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!

What dreadful noise of water in mine ears!

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;
A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,

All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea.

Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,

As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,

That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,

And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

I

[From Henry V., Act v., Prologue.]

THE deep-mouth'd sea.

SHAKESPEARE.

[From Julius Cæsar, Act i., Scene iii.

HAVE seen

The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds.

SHAKESPEARE.

[From Taming of the Shrew, Act i., Scene ii.]

HAVE I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds,

Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?

SHAKESPEARE.

[From Macbeth, Act ii., Scene ii.]

THE

multitudinous seas.

SHAKESPEARE.