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Poem Recognition

In 9th grade I studied a beautiful poem which I can't recall its name nor its author. The poem is about wives of sailors (or fishermen?) who are waiting for them to come back from sea, but unfortunately the don't make it back. The scene is described as happening in Aberdeen, Scotland , and those are the only details I remember.


I would appreciate any help in recognizing that poem.


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uriba
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This is a wild guess, but being a literary son of an Israeli literature teacher. I think you were probably studying Scottish ballads, and the one you refer to is quite likely "Sir Patrick Spence"

 
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Oren - while the theme you describe (failure of a loved one/ones to return from the sea) is a relatively common one in poetry, I can't think what the specific poem would be in this instance.  I suggest you try

www.poemhunter.com, where you can search several different ways - in your case, try by 'quotation' where you can enter whatever you recall of the text of the poem.
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Could it have been the Scots ballad "Sir Patrick Spens",  of which various versions exist, dating from the middle ages? One ends like this:

 

And many was the feather-bed
That fluttered on the foam;
And many was the good lord's son
That never more came home.

The ladies wrang their fingers white,
The maidens tore their heair,
All for the sake of their true loves,
For them they'll see nae mair.

O lang, lang may the maidens sit
With their gold combs in their hair,
All waiting for their own dear loves,
For them they'll see nae mair.

O forty miles of Aberdeen,
'Tis fifty fathoms deep;
And there lies good Sir Patrick Spens,
With the Scots lords at his feet.

See this page for the rest of this version.
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Bingo !

That's indeed the poem I studied.

Many thanks.  
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