Shakespeare for Kayakers

[Inverseyourself]

For those of us who already own every imaginable communication device on the water: https://shakespeare-ce.com/marine/

[NPearson]

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

oh - I see, 

sorry Andy

Nick

[Inverseyourself]

41 minutes ago, NPearson said:

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

oh - I see, 

sorry Andy

Nick

???

[Jim Snyder]

A cause more promising

Than a wild dedication of yourselves

To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores, most certain

 

[Inverseyourself]

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.

 

[Jim Snyder]

Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid’s music.

[Joseph Berkovitz]

This poetry is so good, I think I just have to get one of those antennas. 

[Jim Snyder]

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.