Pirate
, and Cooper, there has not, as we hinted, been much of the poetical extracted from the sea. The subject suggested in Boswell's
Johnson
, by General Oglethorpe, as a noble theme for a poem—namely,
The Mediterranean
, is still unsung, at least by any competent bard. Mrs Hemans has one sweet strain on the
Treasures of the Deep
. Allan Cunningham's
Wet Sheet and Flowing Sea
, and Barry Cornwall's