The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson

'The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height'

'Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.'

'And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.'

'Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth...'

'There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep'

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In modern storytelling, the Kraken is a fearsome beast who attacks ships in a whirl of limbs and drags sailors to their doom. In Tennyson's poem, though, the Kraken is a lonely, sympathetic creature, doomed to die.