Art Friday: Sailing Ships

by Edward Moran

Art Friday: Sailing Ships

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

~ By John Masefield ~

(A favourite poem that my mother read to me many times)

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Todays art has been selected for Danny who loves his sailing ships.

I do hope you enjoy these paintings.

Montague Dawson (above and below) 

Montague Dawson (above and below) 

Mark Richard Myers

Caspar David Friedrich

Thomas Luny - Warships and a cutter in a heavy swell off Harwich 1818art

Willem van de Velde II

Ivan Aivazovsky, Ship in the Stormy Sea

 Florian Prou

I will leave you with this very clever painting by Robert Gonsalves

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