Living

The Dismantled Ship

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

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.

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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