Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA-WEED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always unimpeded can I pray Last Line: Abides its time to come in search of me. Subject(s): Patience; Seaweed | ||||||||
NOT always unimpeded can I pray, Nor, pitying saint, thine intercession claim; Too closely clings the burden of the day, And all the mint and anise that I pay But swells my debt and deepens my self-blame. Shall I less patience have than Thou, who know That Thou revisit'st all who wait for thee, Nor only fill'st the unsounded deeps below, But dost refresh with punctual overflow The rifts where unregarded mosses be? The drooping sea-weed hears, in night abyssed, Far and more far the wave's receding shocks, Nor doubts, for all the darkness and the mist, That the pale shepherdess will keep her tryst, And shoreward lead again her foam-fleeced flocks. For the same wave that rims the Carib shore With momentary brede of pearl and gold, Goes hurrying thence to gladden with its roar Lorn weeds bound fast on rocks of Labrador, By love divine on one sweet errand rolled. And, though Thy healing waters far withdraw, I, too, can wait and feed on hope of Thee And of the dear recurrence of Thy law, Sure that the parting grace my morning saw Abides its time to come in search of me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEA-WEED by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE SEAWEED by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE SONG OF THE SEAWEED by ELIZA COOK THE SEA-WEED by ELIZABETH JONES PULLEN AN EVENING WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE by CHARLOTTE SMITH THE SONG OF GLAUCUS by LAURENT TAILHEDE AFTER THE BURIAL by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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