A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast.

Allan Cunningham

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Topic

Sailing Ocean and sea

Author

Allan Cunningham

Source

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Cunningham, Allan. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea. Performed by Mr. Howard. Baltimore: Howard. G. Willig Jr., 1850, I. 1.

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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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Topic
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Author

Walt Whitman
Source
Song of Myself Leaves of Grass
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 51.

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All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Ocean and sea

Author

Herman Melville
Source
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Closing lines
Language
English
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.