AVE! now let prayer and music Meet in love on earth and sea! Now, sweet Mother! may the weary Turn from this cold world to thee! From the wide and restless waters Hear the sailor's hymn arise? From his watch-fire midst the mountains, Lo! to thee the shepherd cries! Yet, when thus full hearts find voices, If o'erburdened souls there be, Dark and silent in their anguish, Aid those captives! set them free! Touch them, every fount unsealing Where the frozen tears lie deep; Thou, the Mother of all sorrows, Aid! oh, aid to pray and weep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OCTAVES: 21 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE CENSUS-TAKER by ROBERT FROST THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE BOOK OF LOS by WILLIAM BLAKE A SKIER by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT ARBUTUS DAYS by JOHN BURROUGHS |