ON the twilight–burnished hills I lie and long and gaze Where below the grey–lipped sands drink in the flowing tides, Drink, and fade and disappear: interpreting their ways A seer in my heart abides. Once the diamond dancing day–waves laved thy thirsty lips: Now they drink the dusky night–tide running cold and fleet, Drink, and as the chilly brilliance o'er their pallor slips They fade in the touch they meet. Wave on wave of pain where leaped of old the billowy joys: Hush and still thee now unmoved to drink the bitter sea, Drink with equal heart: be brave; and life with laughing voice And death will be one for thee. Ere my mortal days pass by and life in the world be done, Oh, to know what world shall rise within the spirit's ken When it grows into the peace where light and dark are one! What voice for the world of men? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FAREWELL [TO C.E.G.] by CHARLES KINGSLEY UPON THE CIRCUMCISION by JOHN MILTON LINES WRITTEN IN A CITY COMPOSING-ROOM by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS LATE AUTUMN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM TO A WILD DUCK by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON CRYING, 'THALASSUS!' by JOSEPH AUSLANDER ODE TO THE RIVER TEIGN by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE AN INVENTORY OF THE FURNITURE IN DR. PRIESTLEY'S STUDY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |