You came -- and like a stormy wind your love Blew over the lone waters, and the sea Of my heart's life was shaken violently, And all the trembling waves began to move. And cried their love out to the shore, and cast Their love upon the shore -- but you were gone! Yet still that restless flood is roaring on, Where once so great a wind of beauty passed. And still, from the calm heaven of my mind, My thought, like a great hawk on lonely wing, Watches those waters laboring, laboring, In troubled multitude, broken and blind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING CHANSON INNOCENTE: 2 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS FOR A DEAD LADY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DRUG STORE by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER UNCHANGING THEME by FLORENCE BROOKS ON THE SINKING OF THE VICTORIA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ORPHAN BORN by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE |