Her husband is at Sea, if living- diary of Martha Ballard, Hallowell, Maine midwife 1785-1812
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself-Â Emily Dickinson
And I only am escaped alone to tell thee- Book of Job, quoted in Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleÂ
Every vessel on its way down takes with it the captain’s life- Honey Jars by Bryan John Appelby
It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Tell them we are gone, dead and gone- The Terror s1e10
All men will be sailors, then, until the sea shall free them- Suzanne by Leonard Cohen












