Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!" Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
WE kissed good-bye in the gloaming Ere the moon crept up the sky; "When, love, will you be homing?" She cried, with a teary eye; "When will you cease from roaming The breast of the barren sea, And come to another breast for rest, -- To the longing heart o' me?" Then I said to her, low and slow, -- "Oh, it's ever the lad must go, And it's ever the lass must stay, And that is the tale of the world-old woe Till the trump of the judgment-day!" Still I hear her voice enthralling, And I see her standing there, With the night's deep shadows falling On the dawn-break of her hair. And ever her calling, calling, Floats over the southern sea, -- "Come back to my aching breast with rest For the longing heart o' me!" But I cry to her, low and slow, -- "Oh, it's ever the lad must go, And it's ever the lass must stay, And that is the tale of world-old woe Till the trump of the judgment-day!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN |
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