Hagedorn, Hermann. The Last Faring. (In Poems and Ballads.)
The Father
Into the storm he drives! Full is the sail;
But the wind blows wilder and shriller!
The Son
'Tis the ghost of a Sea-King, my father, rigid and pale,
That holds so firm the tiller!
—— The Cobbler of Glamorgan.
He coughed, he turned; and crystal-eyed
He stared, for the bolted door stood wide,
And on the threshold, faint and grand,
He saw the awful Gray Man stand.
His flesh was a thousand snails that crept,
But his face was calm though his pulses leapt.
Herford, Oliver. Ye Knyghte-mare. (In The Bashful Earthquake.)
Ye log burns dimme, and eke more dimme,
Loud groans each knyghtlie gueste,
As ye ghost of his grandmother, gaunt and grimme,
Sits on each knyghte hys cheste.
Kilmer, Joyce. The White Ships and the Red. (In W. S. Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915.)
The red ship is the Lusitania. "She goes to the bottom all in red to join all the other dead ships, which are in white."
Le Gallienne, Richard. Ballad of the Dead Lover. (In his New Poems. 1910.)