“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)
The tideless sea rocks with no rippling swell The huge ships borne upon its gloomy breast; No sound disturbs the silence save the bell Which marks the hour; and answering to the rest, The sentry’s cry, All’s well! (170) “All’s well”, the sentry’s cry, is the pivot around which the nineteen-stanza poem turns from…