JOY! joy! my lover's bark returns, I know her by her bearing brave: How gallantly the foam she spurns, And bounds in triumph o'er the wave! Why dost thou veil the glorious sight, In lurid rain, thou summer cloud? See! see! the lightning flashes bright! Hark! to the thunder long and loud! The storm is past -- the skies are fair, But where's the bark? -- there was but @3one:@1 -- Ha! she is yonder, shattered -- bare -- She reels -- she -- sinks -- O Heaven! she's gone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THAT KIND OF POEM' by KAREN SWENSON STREET LANTERNS by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK) by ROBERT FROST BROODING GRIEF by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE A COAT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |