I traced your name in sand beside the sea Where restless waves were breaking on the shore; I watched a ship depart, a sea gull soar In undirected course, while memory Went soaring back to happy days when we Together listened to the ocean's roar. And then a cruel breaker came and tore Your name away -- and danced and laughed with glee. The moon looked on with sympathetic face And sent its soft rays falling round me there; They whispered, "Though you two are far apart, The storms and tides and waves cannot erase The outline of the letters written where His name is traced so deeply on your heart." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMFORT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERY, TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA by KATHERINE PHILIPS EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN by ALEXANDER POPE SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN THE FLIGHT OF LOVE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |