Free Verse · Death & Loss
The Ocean Said to Me Once
by Stephen Crane · 1895
The ocean said to me once,
"Look!
Yonder on the shore
Is a woman, weeping.
I have watched her.
Go you and tell her this —
Her lover I have laid
In cool green hall.
There is wealth of golden sand
And pillars, coral-red;
Two white fish stand guard at his bier.
"Tell her this
And more —
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With a surplus of toys."
This poem is in the public domain.
“The Ocean Said to Me Once” by Stephen Crane — quilloak.com/poems/the-ocean-said-to-me-once
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