Lydia Gompper, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:55:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lydia Gompper, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Love Songs for Seafaring Men https://hyacinthreview.org/lydia-gompper-love-songs-for-seafaring-men/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lydia-gompper-love-songs-for-seafaring-men Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=5376 Song traveled far over the ocean. For the Captain, there was song in everything. In the waves that crashed against his ship’s hull, in the flutter of his sails battling the wind, and—perhaps most of all—in the drowsy mumbles of his men, stumbling their way to their hammocks after a laborious day. That was the…

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