A tuneful mist above a silent sea O'er which thou broodest, seems thy voice to me; A moan of widowed memory above A tideless depth of erst impetuous love. E'en as the main, thy circling monody Upon the lone horizon meets the sky, Where faintly flickers, in the distance far, The afterglow of hope's departed star. Pour forth, sweet bird, thy requiem; and lo! Night's dreamy waves of sympathy o'erflow To soothe thy pain, while thoughts, attuned to thine, Melt into twilight tenderness divine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DEATH SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY by GEORGE MOSES HORTON FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT by EMILY LAWLESS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FIDDLER JONES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TIME TO RISE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |