greykit.poetry — #disaster

• 1912 [thomas-hardy] The Convergence of the Twain
  Satires of Circumstance

  Hardy's cold meditation on the Titanic and the iceberg, grown in shadowy distance as twin halves of one august event, until the Spinner of the Years said "Now!" and jarred two hemispheres.

  #elegy#disaster#fate#irony#1910s
• 1840 [henry-wadsworth-longfellow] The Wreck of the Hesperus
  Ballads and Other Poems

  A skipper who laughs at the old sailor's warning takes his little daughter into the hurricane, lashes her to the mast, and is found with her frozen on the breakers of Norman's Woe.

  #ballad#sea#disaster#1840s