On the Seashore | A poem by Rabindranath Tagore, 1912
Maurice Denis, Sand Castle, 1909 . On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overhead...
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The Wide Ocean | A poem by Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
Fred Stein, Orchard Beach , New York, 1946 . Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit...
Break, Break, Break | A poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1835
Roy Lichtenstein, Sea Shore, 1964 . Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that...
Alphabetarion # Arrival | Joseph Conrad, 1899
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, The Arrival, 1913 . “I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the...
On [:] Look | Marguerite Duras, 1914-96
Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Reading on the sea, 1910 . "There is one thing I’m good at, and that’s looking at...
Painters [*/ ) By the sea | Paintings by Milton Avery, 1933-1960
Milton Avery, Red Umbrella, 1945 Milton Avery, Offshore Island, 1958 Milton Avery, White Sea, 1947 Milton Avery, Onrushing Wave, 1958...
Painters [*/ ) Seascapes | Paintings by Fairfield Porter, 1961-1975
Fairfield Porter, Sun on Rough Seas, 1972 Fairfield Porter, Sun and Sea, 1975 ...
On [:] Calm & Storm | Willa Cather, 1915
Maxime Maufra, The Cliffs at Beg-ar-Fry, Saint-Jean-du-Doigt, 1895. "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."...
Visiting Alaska | Alice Munro, 1978
Valdez, Alaska, 1905 . “Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and...
For Mac | A poem by Jack Spicer, 1925-1965
Max Dupain, Starfish in Rockpool, Toowoon Bay, 1986 . A dead starfish on a beach He has five branches Representing...