As softly in our shallop swaying slow On dark waves kissed by darting stars that seem To hover close, faint lighting up our dream Like myriad fireflies, above, below -- Translucent darkness, blotting out all woe And all the dear, dead hopes that ever teem Untamed beyond the borders of their dim demesne Except when your der head is pillowed so Upon my knee; then like the waters, stars, Unfathomed, intermingling deeps, we feel Each in the other lost, and God most near. What though, red ominous, the beacon Mars Gleams o'er our course? For now we pause to heal Old wounds with silence, audible, sincere. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT by ROBERT BURNS DIXIE by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 24. COMPLIANCE IN LOVE by PHILIP AYRES TO A YOUNG MOTHER by HELEN DARBY BERNING PSALM 16. CONSERVA ME by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |