I EXPLAIN the silvered passing of a ship at night, The sweep of each sad lost wave, The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving, The little cry of a man to a man, A shadow falling across the grayer night, And the sinking of the small star; Then the waste, the far waste of waters, And the soft lashing of black waves For long and in loneliness. Remember, thou, O ship of love, Thou leavest a far waste of waters, And the soft lashing of black waves For long and in loneliness. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CATS' MONTH by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS DIRGE IN WOODS by GEORGE MEREDITH THE CONQUERED BANNER by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE by ELINOR WYLIE CASTOR AND POLYDEUCES by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE FOR A RETURN by A. A. ANDRIELLO |