<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507148" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One moonlit night a ship drove in,<br>A ghost ship from the west,<br>Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller,<br>Like a mermaid drest<br>In long green weed and barnacles:<br>She beached and came to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the watchers of the coast<br>Flocked to view the sight,<br>Men and women streaming down<br>Through the summer night,<br>Found her standing tall and ragged<br>Beached in the moonlight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one old woman looked and wept<br>'The 'Alice Jean'? But no!<br>The ship that took my Dick from me<br>Sixty years ago<br>Drifted back from the utmost west<br>With the ocean's flow?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Caught and caged in the weedy pool<br>Beyond the western brink,<br>Where crewless vessels lie and rot<br>in waters black as ink.<br>Torn out again by a sudden storm<br>Is it the 'Jean', you think?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred women stared agape,<br>The menfolk nudged and laughed,<br>But none could find a likelier story<br>For the strange craft.<br>With fear and death and desolation<br>Rigged fore and aft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blind ship came forgotten home<br>To all but one of these<br>Of whom none dared to climb aboard her:<br>And by and by the breeze<br>Sprang to a storm and the 'Alice Jean'<br>Foundered in frothy seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507148" data-title="The de Robert Graves" data-description="One moonlit night a ship drove in, A ghost ship from the west, Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller, Like a mermaid drest In long green weed and barnacles: She beached and came to rest. All the watchers of the coast Flocked to view the sight, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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