White Ship - Poetry

Poetry

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The White Ship: a ballad"; first published 1881 in his collected Ballads and Sonnets.
  • Geoffrey Hill, "The White Ship". In his first book, For the Unfallen, 1959.

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