Across the Sea and Other Poems.

A collection of lyrical and narrative poems that uses the sea as an extended metaphor for life's journey, recalling childhood and youthful longing while dramatizing moral choices through personified virtues who guide a voyaging speaker. Several pieces retell or reflect on Christian legends and sacred places, blending devotional imagery, contemplative solitude, and elegiac memory. The verses probe faith, doubt, courage, patience, and the pursuit of an ideal shore, often weighing earthly rest against spiritual quest. The tone shifts between tender reverie and moral exhortation, favoring serene imagery of shorelines, twilight, and navigation to frame inward reflection.