"Lappo I leave behind and Dante too, Lo, I would sail the seas with thee alone! Talk me no love talk, no bought-cheap fiddl'ry, Mine is the ship and thine the merchandise, All the blind earth knows not th'emprise Whereto thou calledst and whereto I call. Lo, I have seen thee bound about with dreams, Lo, I have known thy heart and its desire; Life, all of it, my sea, and all men's streams Are fused in it as flames of an altar fire! Lo, thou hast voyaged not! The ship is mine." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER WRITTEN IN KEATS' 'ENDYMION' by THOMAS HOOD THE NEW COLOSSUS by EMMA LAZARUS TO NIGHT by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE by WALT WHITMAN FIDELIA: 4. THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTION IN A SONNET by GEORGE WITHER COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |