1932
The Sea Ghost
Composed by 
Margaret Bonds
Margaret Bonds Text by Frank Dempster Sherman
"The Sea Ghost" is a song by Margaret Bonds on the poetry of Frank Dempster Sherman. Bonds submitted this song to the Rodman Wanamaker Foundation Composition Competition in 1932, where it won second prize.
Audio
The Sea Ghost
Nicole Jenkins, soprano; Lorna Griffitt, piano1:14
Text
A Sea Ghost by Frank Dempster Sherman
All night I heard along the coast
The sea her grief outpour;
And with the dawn arose a ghost
To haunt the furrowed shore.
And when from out the gray mist rolled
The sun above the town,
A shipwrecked sailor came and told
Of how the ship went down.
Then did I sudden understand
The sobbing of the sea,
And of that white ghost on the sand
I knew the mystery.
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