Titanic (poem by Thomas W. H. Crosland)
Willy Stöwer, Sinking Titanic Titanic - a poem by Thomas W.H. Croslanda (1865-1924), devoted to the crash of the British transatlantic Titanic on April 15, 1912. The work is a sonnet and was published in the Sonnets book, published in London in 1912. The work is carried out by an Italian rhyming model. The consonances are arranged according to the pattern abba abba cde cde. The ship was compared by the poet to the biblical Behemoth. Upon the tinkling splintery battlements Which swing and tumble south in ghostly white Behemoth rushes blindly from the night, Behemoth whom we have praised on instruments Dulcet and shrill and impudent with vents: Behemoth whose huge body was our delight And miracle, wallows where there is no light, Shattered and crumpled and torn with pitiful rents. O towers of steel and masts that gored the moon, On you we blazoned our pomp and lust and pelf, And we have died like excellent proud kings Who take death nobly if it come late or soon: For our high souls ar...