Sea

The Poet writes to the sea as he might to a mistress; a mistress who for all her moods draws him ever to her. He is helpless at the sight, or, borne on her waves, powerless.
She, a Romantic idea; an ideal love.

Picture credit: Woman on the Beach of Ruegen, 1818, Caspar David Friedrich (source: WikiArt).

From journal, November 2021. See Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawney (Penguin Classics 2013).