Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIDNIGHT AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: Through the deep stillness of the awful night
Last Line: "may cry of ""all is well"" our midnight cheer!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Sea Voyages


THROUGH the deep stillness of the awful night,
I heard the clamor of the ship's great bell --
A voice cried: "Twelve o'clock, and all is well!"
Then silence, and the solemn, watching light
Of the white moon, on billows wild and white
That yielded, to her magical, dear spell,
The stormy hearts no lesser charm could quell --
Slaves of her lamp, and powerless to affright.

Ah, when across the wide, unfathomed sea
Which no chart maps, whose depth no plummet knows,
To some dim, unconjectured shore we steer,
Through that wild night, into whose depths we flee
Farther than any wind from this world blows,
May cry of "All is well" our midnight cheer!






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