Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim, Moon of the lifted tides and their folded burden, Look, look down; and gather the blinded oceans, Moon of compassion. Come, white Silence, over the one sea pathway: Pour with hallowing hands on the surge and outcry, Silver flame; and over the famished blackness, Petals of moonlight. Once again, the formless void of a world-wreck Gropes its way through the echoing dark of chaos; Tide on tide, to the calling, lost horizons, One in the darkness. You that veil the light of the all-beholding, Shed your tidings down to the dooms of longing, Down to the timeless dark; and the sunken treasure, One in the darkness. Touch, and harken -- under the shrouding silver, -- Rise and fall of the heart of the sea and its legions All and one; -- one with the breath of the deathless, Rising and falling. Touch and waken, so, to a far hereafter, Ebb and flow, the deep, and the dead in their longing: Till at last, on the hungering face of the waters, There shall be light. @3(Light of Light, give us to see, for their sake. Light of Light, grant them eternal peace; And let Light perpetual shine upon them, -- Light, everlasting.)@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON AN ANNIVERSARY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE WHITE SNOW by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE A STRANGER IN SEYTHOPOLIS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES MY VOCATION by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 1. BABYHOOD by BERTON BRALEY ELEGY ON A LADY, WHOM GRIEF FOR THE DEATH OF HER BETHROTHED KILLED by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |