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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIDES, by INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY
First Line: Once more you journey outward, weary tide
Last Line: Must vanish with the ebb tide's old despair.
Subject(s): Tides; Water
First Line: Once more you journey outward, weary tide
Last Line: Must vanish with the ebb tide's old despair.
Subject(s): Tides; Water
Once more you journey outward, weary tide,
Your questing waters moving toward the sea.
What is it that you seek eternally,
And, failing, seek again unsatisfied?
In the night hours I heard your voice that cried
Along the sedgy marshes wistfully,
And thought how beautiful your dream must be
That baffled through the years, has never died.
Oh, sea, my own unquiet, restless heart
Echoes your anguish. My tumultuous blood
That surges high when life is glad and fair
Knows that the transient glory must depart,
Knows that the exaltation born of flood
Must vanish with the ebb tide's old despair.
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