I WAIT alone in a stranger's land, By unremembered floods I stand, Whose shores unhaunted are. I sorrow, and who shall comfort me? The wide grey sky or the wide grey sea? Or Love that lingers afar? But Love has no help for my heart's behoof; The sky is flat as a prison-roof, Hopeless of moon or star. Oh sea take my heart in thy waves and beat Its passion out at the tardy feet Of Love that lingers afar. Thou shouldst not sorrow, sad wind, but I, But I, oh I; for canst thou not fly And follow thy wish over border and bar? Thou, soulless wind, canst arise and go, While my wild desire is too faint and slow To reach him who lingers afar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HUNDRED COLLARS by ROBERT FROST THE AFRICAN CHIEF by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT MORTAL COMBAT by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE TIDE OF FAITH by MARY ANN EVANS AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE by WALTER MITCHELL UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 22. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |