O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea, O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I? All night long the water is crying to me. Unresting water, there shall never be rest Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail, And the fire of the end begin to burn in the west; And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea, All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE by WILLIAM BARNES EVENING IN ENGLAND by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE THE CHILD ALONE: 6. BLOCK CITY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FARM-YARD SONG by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. GILBERT WAKEFIELD by LUCY AIKEN PSALM 6. DOMINE NE IN FURORE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |