SOME morning I shall rise from sleep When all the house is quiet and dark. I shall steal out and find my ship By the dim quayside and embark. Nor fear the seas or any wind, I have known Fear but now no more; My ship will bear me safe and kind, Long hoped for and long waited for. To no strange country shall I come, But to mine own delightful land, With Love to bid me welcome home, And Love to lead me by the hand. Love, you and I will cling together And look long in each other's eyes, There will be rose and violet weather Under the trees of Paradise. We shall not hear the ticking clock Nor the soft rustle of Time's wings, Nor dread the sharp, dividing stroke, Being come now to immortal things. You of that country shall be fain, Being now no new inhabitant, Its beauties to set forth, explain And all its dear delights to vaunt. They shall not end in a thousand year, You, Love and I shall be together, Withouten any change to fear, Glad in the rose and violet weather. With all those wonders to admire And the heart's hunger satisfied, Fed to the full our heart's desire, We shall forget we ever died. Oh, in some morning, dateless yet, I shall rise up in the sweet dark, And find my ship with sails all set By the dim quayside and embark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BIRTHDAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER MOUNTAINEER AND POET by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER by EDWARD HERBERT ULTIMA THULE: NIGHT by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WHY THUS LONGING by HARRIET WINSLOW SEWALL WORLDLY PLACE by MATTHEW ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 1. THE MARVELLOUS SEED OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |