← Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; 🔊
← Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! 🔊
← Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossamers? 🔊
← The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip— 🔊
← But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. 🔊
← And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge, 🔊
← It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, 🔊
← The sails at noon left off their tune, And the ship stood still also. 🔊
← I woke, and we were sailing on As in a gentle weather: 🔊
← The planks looked warped! and see those sails, How thin they are and sere! 🔊