Summary:\u00a0 A Poem.\u00a0 The captain’s daughter as seen through the eyes of a young, handsome sailor. Ben\/Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
Rating: K<\/p>\n
Word Count: 172<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Look what I found<\/p>\n
By the ocean sea,<\/p>\n
A whole new world<\/p>\n
Waiting there for me.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
And that world was tied<\/p>\n
To a maiden fair:<\/p>\n
To a captain\u2019s daughter<\/p>\n
With a playful air.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
It was merely chance<\/p>\n
That I saw her there,<\/p>\n
The maiden dancing<\/p>\n
With the chestnut hair.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
Her eyes were bright<\/p>\n
And her laughter gay<\/p>\n
As a schooner tossing<\/p>\n
A sea foam spray.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
She was wild and free<\/p>\n
As the ocean tide<\/p>\n
And her heart was deep<\/p>\n
As the main* is wide.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
She danced on the sand<\/p>\n
To a secret tune<\/p>\n
That only the gulls<\/p>\n
and the seal folk knew.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
She stole my soul<\/p>\n
With her siren\u2019s spell<\/p>\n
As a frigate caught<\/p>\n
In a tempest\u2019s swell.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
I was lost to her<\/p>\n
To that beauty fine,<\/p>\n
To that maiden romping<\/p>\n
Near the deep blue brine*.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
And she gave her heart<\/p>\n
To this seaman poor<\/p>\n
And made me richer<\/p>\n
Than the kings of yore.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
Though I lost her young \u2013<\/p>\n
My sea sprite fair \u2013<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll always love that maiden<\/p>\n
With the chestnut hair.<\/p>\n
~ Finis<\/em><\/p>\n Author’s Notes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n *Main: another term for the open ocean<\/p>\n *Brine: another term for seawater<\/p>\n I wrote this poem for a writing challenge on Bonanza Boomers called Bonanza Ballads. I was given the song title “Look What I Found” by Lady Gaga and had to write a story or a poem based solely off of that title. This is what came to me.<\/p>\n Tag:<\/strong> Elizabeth Cartwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary: The captain’s daughter as seen through the eyes of a young, handsome sailor. Ben\/Elizabeth.<\/p>\n Rating: K<\/p>\n Word Count: 172<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":13812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1004,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-cartwright","category-poetry","category-romance","wpcat-1004-id","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-3-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sans-titre-1.jpggu_-e1487889393136.jpg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}