Ocean
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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The Fair Emigrant’s Fate in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Within the bar the barque, now moor’d, / Rides free from all commotion: / Its sea-worn inmates feel at ease, / Safe from the tossing ocean.
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The Love Letter in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- I grieve that seas between us roll, / And to stern fate we bow.
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Stanzas, Extemporaneously Written on a Stormy Night, Dalserf, November 4, 1833 in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- I feel for those, whose fates are to endure, / The midnight hazards of the stormy waves: / Oh Heaven! shield them with thy guardian pow’r, / Them ward from wrecks, and from untimely graves.
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The South-East Storm in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- The clouds gather thick on the far southern sky,— / Opposing winds meet, and are whirling on high; / What blackness of darkness now broods o’er the whole, / While lightnings gleam forth, and the thunders do roll. / How changed is the bay! its blue welt’rings are lost, / Green ocean waves rush in, and foaming ’tis toss’d; / From fleet low’ring clouds how the torrents down pour,— / Now Neptune presides, and a tempest does roar.
- The boat, lately left, is now far from the shore;— / Haste! haste! strike the sail, and pull hard at the oar;— / But the waves running high, caught in gale, and o’ercome, / The boat and the crew are engulfed in the foam.
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Erratonga in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- “Why should fate thus now divide us, / Roaring oceans roll between?
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The Black Seal in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- She says, “for me she’ll cross the sea.” / Oh blest!—my heart bounds full of glee; / May Heaven bring her safe to me!
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- There Carey’s chickens have in numbers flocked, / Gregarious in their habits, their approach, / As heralds of the storm to other tribes / Have proved—a sign to haste to fairer climes, / Where peace and sunshine reigned; while they themselves / As seamen good, to dangers well innured,
- Allowing all free scope for rolling seas, / Along that space yet destined to become / A scene of strange convulsions, when in birth / Old ocean must bring forth another isle; / One, yet to rise to eminent renown!
- At such a time, this island’s loftiest peaks / From now-styled Egmont, to Kaikoura’s range / Or other alpine ranges, where they rear / Their summits to the clouds, all nameless then; / With ev’ry other hill like those around, / Were—what?—but mere embryos, all unseen / As closed within a womb!—were all immersed
- And there the muscle and the cockle moored / Their dwellings all secure, and sought their prey: / While many others, there of varied kind, / In like communion lived! and amongst them crawled / Things of unsightly shape, and curious form, / Each skillful in his art of catching food; / Though each, on neighb’ring tribes, blackmail demands, / Yet still to all there seem’d a full supply, / As one were made the other to sustain!
- The winds, uninstrumental to the use / Of navigation’s science, gave their force / In idle frolic, waging ruthles war / On the great briny desert of the South: / And in return, the waves, to anger chafed, / Would heave and foam with much of vengeful ire, / And kindling fury, as the clouds of heaven, / In their alliance, lent the thunder’s voice / T’ outdo the roarings of the tempest’s trump! / While flashed the foam, as by th’ electric flame / Surcharged in aid, from light’ning’s magazine, / To give resistance with its fluid fire, / Which raging billows send up in the spray, / As fain to scorch the winds, or warding off / Th’ interminablebuffettings endured! / Thus, the commotions of the elements / In wanton, profitless, contentions joined, / Without the intervention of an isle / With length of shore, or mountain’s lofty range / That might at least break something of their rage,
- Aye ev’n at such a time, those southern wastes / Unknown, uncalled for lay; when northern gales / And briny waters have been seized upon, / As some necessity or other cause / Had urged, and them to active service brought, / Like fellow bondsmen; each his task to do, / In forwarding some merchant’s laden’d bark, / Advancing much his interests, and the weal / Of such communities of sea-girt isles; / (The sea, the highway chief of seaboard states; / When seamanship was rude, and crafts but small, / Long voyages were made in sight of land!)— / Or they have been in requisition called / For warriors’ gallies, as they sped to explore / New fields for conquest, in their lust for power!
- Time verily there was, as all around / Can testify, ’gainst risk of much dispute, / When o’er those summits roll’d the ample waves, / Of boundless ocean, shewing an expanse, (1) / Round which but seemed to rest th’ etherial dome! / And there the great leviathans of the deep, / In their disport, have gamboled monster forms / Mid oceans, to all enterprise unknown; / Which enterprise, had such been exercised, / Might oft have proved destructive to their joys, / As buoyantly they scaled those heights, or dived
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- To them in kindness has the ocean’s breeze,— / As bidden by an overruling power, / They knew not how to own,—wafted at length / That generous hearted “Cook,” who wisely sowed / Upon their shores, the seeds of various use / In wholesome fare; and useful animals, / To them unknown, let loose to multiply,
- Oh! what is worse than sympathy extinct? / And human hearts become the demon’s den?— / Then man, the greatest enemy to man / Becomes, when dire ferocity is roused / Each ’gainst his fellow, through necessity, / Urged by a craving lust like beasts of prey! / Nay worse!—and more degrading—’gainst their kind / None’s ravenous, though they might disagree, / A fellow to devour!—Their scarce supplies / Of all that craving appetite demands / Have driven them oft to sad revolting deeds, / The source of fierce exterminating feuds / For sake of plunder; when the “weak” must fall / To “might” a prey, as when the smaller fry / Of ocean, by the greater, are devoured!
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- A fearful hasty rocking to and fro, / Awhile most violently driven, occurs / With an unwonted energy; and next / Transverse as fiercely; then with sudden twist / And circular motion;—as if one, whose grasp / Had hold on thee, and loosening thy base / Most deeply fixed beneath, as with a turf / He with much force would loosen from its bed / Ere such he pulls;—while heavings strange are felt, / As when ’tis said of yore, old Atlas hove / His mighty load, with strenuous effort oft, / Ere he its weight upon his shoulders poised! / Rocks burst assunder! with commotions dire; / While various orders ’gainst each other crashed, / And shattered into fragments, got commixed / In wild confusion, jostled to a strange / And mutilated heterogeneous mass / Of various sorts; all meanwhile much upturned / And sideways shoved by that explosive force / Employed to urge the hollows downside up / Them sending towering far above the waves! / Amid such breaking up of solids, and / The transformations passing o’er the scene, / Old ocean, smitten, raged with furious storm, / Aye, fiercer than when roused by boisterous gales; / Then waves no longer followed, as in chase, / Each other, tossing sportively their spray / As they before the breeze would scud along; / But, billows met with billows, all deranged
- o’er thy space / At pleasure roll’d the sup’rincumbent weight / Of ocean in its vastness uncontrolled;
- Thus the omnipotent Jehovah has / His armies of most powerful agencies / T’ effect some purpose, when He wills to call / Them into action, either for a work / Of sudden effort, or for that, as much / In power, though of long persevering toil! / So, He, in His wise providence, looked down, / And saw the ocean of the unknown South / A welt’ring waste of waters, void of aught / Betokening of some peculiar care;
- a rending, and / Upheaving impetus no more to lie / In deeps invisible,—where waters dense / The sunlight cannot penetrate to cheer / The fathomless profound;—these, in their turn, / To share in beauty’s pleasures, and receive / The genial influence of light and heat / Must from their shades be brought!
- The coral worm, / A feeble thing for man to look upon, / Is yet a means, and one that will not err, / Or turn rebellious from the task imposed / As being one impossible to do! / By such an agency minute, He works / In rearing rock like structures from the depths
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- Their reclamation from their prestine state; / As such would be like sacrificing means / And energies in vain; while let alone / In all their savage grandeur, to the eye / Those hills would seem like ocean’s mighty waves / O’er either rising, when by tempest tossed;
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Canto Fifth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- So, such shall aye / Be his employment, till his journey ends, / When He’s absorb’d into th’ ETERNITY / Of far Futurity; as when the ship / With all its freight is safely moor’d at length, / Within the destined haven of its rest! / How varied are the dispensations given / From out Time’s budget as he posts along: / To this, of love; to that, of much rebuke: / To some, of peace; to others, war and strife; / To this. a disappointment; joy, to that;— / To persons, and to nations, each their dues’ / According as their merits mark their doom: / Thus, like a courier, makes he sure despatch / Of business, doing all his Sovereign’s will;— / And, who dare such gainsay?— What is the lot, / Whether or not expected, to us given, / We must take up instanter!
- When from the bosom of ETERNITY, / Time first his course began, then forth he sped,
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Canto Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- As sails the barque upon a tranquil sea, / ’Neath summer’s sky, and with a steady breeze / Moved gently on; then, all would pleasure seem: / But then, there’s nothing to commend its worth, / Its strength of build, and how it braves the storm, / When striving with head winds and adverse tides; / As storms, and tempests best its virtues try! / So will cross fortunes in the cause of love, / Well try the spirit and the faith of those, / Who may the victims of such fate become!
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Canto Third in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Now, to illustrate such a doctrine given. / Permit the Muse such instances to give / That best can stir th’ affections of the heart,— / The best affections bent on virtue’s course / Which best accord with Heaven’s eternal truth!
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Ocean":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.