ocean-rover

Updated: May 15, 2025

Shelley poor lad! a Percy, too but they ought to have let him sleep in his sailor's grave he was drowned in the Mediterranean, you know, near Leghorn and not burn his body, as they did, as if he had been a bloody Turk. But many people thought him so, White-Jacket, because he didn't go to mass, and because he wrote Queen Mab. Trelawney was by at the burning; and he was an ocean-rover, too!

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War