Lost Anchors by Edwin Arlington Robinson

LIKE a dry fish flung inland far from shore, / There lived a sailor, warped and ocean-browned, / Who told of an old vessel, harbor-drowned

And out of mind a century before, / Where divers, on descending to explore

A legend that had lived its way around

The world of ships, in the dark hulk had found

Anchors, which had been seized and seen no more.

Improving a dry leisure to invest

Their misadventure with a manifest

Analogy that he may read who runs, / The sailor made it old as ocean grass -

Telling of much that once had come to pass

With him, whose mother should have had no sons.