Author: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Cited by
- Herman Melville (1)
- IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A mariner sat in the shrouds one night,
The wind was piping free;
Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale,
And the phospher gleamed in the wake of the whale,
As it floundered in the sea.
FROM: The Drowned Mariner, (1846), Poem, US