Social Commentaries
Calm at Sea
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters,
Calmly slumb'ring lies the main,
While the sailor views with trouble
Nought but one vast level plain.
Not a zephyr is in motion!
Silence fearful as the grave!
In the mighty waste of ocean
Sunk to rest is ev'ry wave.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Calm at Sea.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/209/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Calm at Sea.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/209/.
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