By Castle and River: A Ship Drawing

The Brook

By: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
by many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
with here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silver water-break
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

Friday, July 9, 2010

A Ship Drawing

I'm not sure that any of you know this, but, ships were the first thing that I could draw very well. I loved ships, well, to see paintings of them: their appearance is the mainly only thing I like about them. I like clipper ships and frigates. Probably others too, but those are two of the few who's name I know. But my drawings always came out sort of a clipper-style.

Much time has passed since I stopped drawing ships on a regular basis, but every so often, I'll try it again. Yesterday was one of those time. I saw something with ships in it and the sea-longing returned.

I really would have preferred a frigate-style ship, but I didn't think about it that much so it came out my usual clipper-style.

I'll work on a frigate and see if I can't do it one of these days. But, for now, enjoy my typical clipper ship.

Fair voyages!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Charming!

What got you started drawing ships? Any painting in particular?

~ A.K. ~; July 11, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Anonymous said...: I love how the ship looks as if it is flowing into you in your woodland garb. Very cool effect. But I have always loved the sea and its un-pent power -- sometimes gentle, soothing....sometimes raging just below the surface threatening to consume. Ah, few things do remember with fondness more than the sea.

-m; July 11, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Julie said...: Thank-you for the complement M!

Well, ~A.K~, I don't exactly remember, but I am pretty sure that is was (Not a painting) a little tiny box, for cuff-links or something. The sides were gold-colored, but the top was wooden, and there was a little mettle circle in the middle of the lid with a beautiful little ship on it. I drew in in a journal on March 31, 2007. I called it The Arabella. It really didn't look much like the ship on the box, but I was proud of it. :); July 12, 2010 at 7:16 AM

Friday, July 9, 2010

A Ship Drawing

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