Title of Poem about the sea and sky.

[deanna]

Does anyone know the poem which includes the words "And there would I rest and lie my chin in my hands, and gaze at the dazzle of sands below, and the green waves curling slow and the grey blue distant haze where the sea meets up with the sky ........"

Ends with "there is nobody else in the world, and the world belongs to me"?

[pugwash52]

Deanna,I think you'll find it's "The Island" by A.A. Milne

[deanna]

pugwash52's answer doesn't seem to be correct. But thanks anyway for trying to help, much appreciated.

Some more of the poem goes ~" ....I would climb to the top where the six trees stand" then the bit I quoted and ends with "There is nobody else in the world, and the world belongs to me".

[shaneystar2]

Pugwash is correct .
This is the poem.
If I had a ship,
I'd sail my ship,
I'd sail my ship
Through Eastern seas;
Down to a beach where the slow waves thunder-
The green curls over and the white falls under-
Boom! Boom! Boom!
On the sun-bright sand.
Then I'd leave my ship and I'd land,
And climb the steep white sand,
And climb to the trees,
The six dark trees,
The coco-nut trees on the cliff's green crown -
Hands and knees
To the coco-nut trees,
Face to the cliff as the stones patter down,
Up, up, up, staggering, stumbling,
Round the corner where the rock is crumbling,
Round this shoulder,
Over this boulder,
Up to the top where the six trees stand ....

And there I would rest, and lie,
My chin in my hands, and gaze
At the dazzle of sand below,
And the green waves curling slow,
And the grey-blue distant haze
Where the sea goes up to the sky....

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
"There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me."

A.A. Milne

[deanna]

Apologies to pugwash52

and many thanks to shaneystar2.

[pugwash52]

That's OK, deanna. Thanks for reminding me of the poem. Hadn't thought of it for years.