Living
The Dismantled Ship
From Leaves of Grass
Living
In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor’d near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batter’d ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul’d up at last and
hawser’d tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering.
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “The Dismantled Ship.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/342/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “The Dismantled Ship.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/342/.
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