Too, into that godless cleft of sky / Where nothing turns but dead sands flashing.
The speaker of a poem from this sequence laments that he "cannot touch your hand and look / Too, into that godless cleft of sky / Where nothing turns but dead sands flashing." This sequence ends by declaring the "imaged Word… that holds / Hushed willows anchored in its glow," to be the "unbetrayable reply / Whose accent no farewell can know." The second poem in this sequence stipulates that "the seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise" should be "answered in the vortex of our grave," in its entreaty to "O (*) minstrel galleons of Carib fire" to "bequeath us to no earthly shore." The speaker watches as "Bright striped urchins flay each other with sand" in the first of these poems, which appear after "At Melville's Tomb" as the final entry of the volume White Buildings. For 10 points, name this sequence of six poems portraying the author's relationship with the Danish sailor Emil Opffer as a mystical sea-journey, written by Hart Crane.
The speaker of a poem from this sequence laments that he "cannot touch your hand and look /
“Voyages”