Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
THE flood flows down, the sails are spreading, The destined voyage must begin; A quiet farewell, and then, undreading, I enter in. But far at sea"Sir Captain, shelter Awaits us whither? What harbour saves?" Nor sound nor motion but the welter Of heavy waves. "Yet tell methere shall be an ending? Some port with hope of us is lit? Within some haven we find friending? Ah! teach me it! "Captain, ... these seas ... are not uncharted? We voyage not in blind amaze, Growing forever fainter-hearted, Unending days?" No worduntil I fall entreating: "If here we wander evermore, If there shall never be a meeting Again, ashore "Oh, why the vessel, why the sailing? Sink we to rest beneath the sea, Unsought, unlonging, unavailing, No more to be!" Silencethat stings me with the daring To spring and seize that Shape unknown: O God't is I with whom I'm faring Alone, alone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE |
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