Classic and Contemporary Poetry
E.J.B., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Companions, all day long we've stood Last Line: To guard their cabin room Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): "companions, All Day Long We've Stood""; Subject(s): Sailors And Sailers; Storms; Brotherhood | ||||||||
Companions, all day long we've stood The wild winds restless blowing All day we've watched the darkened flood Around our vessel flowing Sunshine has never smiled since morn And clouds have gathered drear And heavier hearts would feel forlorn And weaker minds would fear But look in each young shipmate's eyes Lit by the evening flame And see how little stormy skies Our joyous blood can tame No glance the same expression wears No lip the same soft smile Yet kindness warms and courage cheers Nerves every breast the while It is the hour of dreaming now The red fire brightly gleams And sweetest in a red fire's glow The hour of dreaming seems I may not trace the thoughts of all But some I read as well As I can hear the ocean's fall And sullen surging swell Edmund's swift soul is gone before It threads a forest wide Whose towers are bending to the shore And gazing on the tide And one is there -- I know the voice The thrilling stirring tone That makes his bounding pulse rejoice Yet makes not his alone Mine own hand longs to clasp her hand Mine eye to greet her eye Win white sails, win Zedora's strand And Ula's Eden sky -- Mary and Flora oft their gaze Is clouded pensively And what that earnest aspect says Is all revealed to me 'Tis but two years or little more Since first they dared that main And such a night may well restore That first time back again The smothered sigh the lingering late The longed for dreaded hour The parting at the moss-grown gate The last look on the tower I know they think of these and then The evening's gathering gloom And they alone with foreign men To guard their cabin room | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RESTAURANT by DAVID IGNATOW BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INTERRACIAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM A DAY DREAM by EMILY JANE BRONTE |
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