NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1921
Copyright, 1921, by
The Century Co.
TO
HARRISON S. MORRIS
A HATER OF SHAM AND PRETENSE,
A LOVER OF BEAUTY AND TRUTH,
A FIRM FRIEND.
The poems of this volume, gathered here after many requests, are, with afew exceptions, from my previous lyrical publications. They are also ina real sense an intimate record. For the sea has often enough seemed tome almost as a vast external subconsciousness in which the forces of mybeing—as well as the world's—were at play.
Cale Young Rice.
Louisville, Ky., August, 1921.
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Sea-Hoardings 3
The Shore's Song to the Sea 5
To a Firefly by the Sea 9
Invocation 11
I Know Your Heart, O Sea! 11
A Sea-Ghost 13
Finitude 15
The Colonel's Story 16
Cosmism 21
Off the Irish Coast 22
The Fairies of God 23
The Song of the Homesick Gael 24
Pageants of the Sea 26
A Song of the Old Venetians 29
Basking 30
Sappho's Death Song 32
The Wind's Word 33
Submarine Mountains 34
The Song of the Storm-Spirits 36
[Pg x]The Great Seducer 37
K'u-Kiang 38
Typhoon 39
Penang 41
Nights on the Indian Ocean 42
Sightin