Date: 1838
"I to the ocean gave / My mind, and thoughts as restless as the wave"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It is as it were the interpretation of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)