Titanic Poetry, Music & Stories (History of the RMS Titanic series Book 2) by Ken Rossignol

Author:Ken Rossignol [Rossignol, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Privateer Clause Publishing / THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY LLC
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Mail being loaded on the Titanic at Queenstown, Ireland.

This poem was written by Father Frank Browne (who left Titanic when she docked in Ireland)

"IN MEMORIAM"

"April 15th,1912"

"A ship rode forth on the Noonday tide

Rode forth to the open sea

and high sun shone on the good ship's side,

And all seemed gladness, and hope, and pride

For the gallant sight she was"

"For the crew was strong, and the captain brave

And never a fear had they,

Never a thought for the turbulent wave,

Never a dread of a watery grave,

Nor dreams of a fateful day."

"So the ship sailed on, and the voices strong

Sang sweet on the morning air,

And the glad notes billowed the shore along,

they drifted and died, till the Sailors' song

Was soft as a whispered prayer"

"And all seemed gladness, and hope ,and pride

As far as the eye could see,

For where was the foe that could pierce her side,

Or where in the Ocean depths could hide,

A mightier power then she?"

"But far to the North, in the frozen zone

Where the Ice King holds his sway,

Full many a berg, like the monarch's throne

Or castle that fabled princes own

Gleamed white neath the Sun's bright ray"

"When the challenge came on the whisp'ring air

It passed like a fleeting breath,

But it roused a king in his Arctic lair,

And waked what vengeance was sleeping there,

The vengeance of Doom and Death"

"But heedless and gay o'er the sunlit waves

The vessel all lightly bore,

Till the distant coast with its rocks and caves,

And the land that the Western Ocean laves,

Were seen from her decks no more"

"When Evening came with the waning light,

And shrouded the rolling deep,

For never a moment she stayed her flight,

Adown the path of the moonbeams bright,

Though Heaven was wrapped in sleep."

"Another dawn with its liquid gold

Gilded the Eastern sky

Lighting the ship so fair, so bold

that sped its way o'er the Ocean old,

Nor wrecked of danger nigh...."

"And noonday came, when the burning sun

Rifted the realms of snow

And burst the fetters the Ice had spun

And shattered the towers that Cold had won,

Breaking the great Ice-flow"

"Till over the ocean's heaving swells,

Like ghosts in the twilight gloom,

The great bergs glided with purpose fell

Minding the quest of their Monarch well,

The quest of Revenge and Doom"

" The deeper night with it slow advance

Bids even the winds to cease,

No moonbeams bright on the waters dance

But all lie still in a starry trance

And the Ocean sleeps in peace"

"A shuddering gasp o'er the resting deep!

A wail from the silent sea!

Tis heard where the stars their lone watch keep

Tis heard in the grave where the dead men sleep,

mindful of human glee...

"The Springtime dawn with its rosy light

See naught but the waves' wild flow

For under the veil of the moonless night

When the sea was still and the stars were bright

The Ice King had slain his foe."

"The Ship that rode on noonday tide

Rode forth to open sea,

But gone are the gladness, and hope, and pride

For the Northern Ocean's depths could hide

A mightier power than she."

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