Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.
Richard Hovey
The Sea Gypsy
I
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.
With her topsails shot with fire,
And my heart has gone aboard her
For the Islands of Desire.
With the sunset I must be
Hull down on the trail of rapture
In the wonder of the sea.