Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEARINESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poet's Biography First Line: Snowy sails, silvery sails Last Line: On the strand of peace. Subject(s): Life; Peace; Sailing & Sailors | ||||||||
Snowy sails, silvery sails, Gleaming in the sun, Leaving scores of jewelled trails In the course you run, On your white wings bear away All my care and pain; I would for at least to-day Be a child again. Just to thrill with youthful fire, Kindling heart and brain, Just to know the old desire Lofty heights to gain; Just to hold the simple faith Into which I grew, When my God was not a wraith, And all men were true! Shadowed sails, clouded sails, Life hath made me know That you leave no jewelled trails, Proudly though you go; Drops that floods of diamonds seem Are but dazzling spray, Fleeting as a happy dream, Swift to fade away. Distant sails, waning sails, Waft me to some shore Where corroding care prevails Never, nevermore! Where the flotsam of the deep Finds its wanderings cease, And the shipwrecked sink to sleep On the strand of peace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTERN LONG ISLAND by MARVIN BELL SAILS OF MURMUR by ANSELM HOLLO LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944 by CHARLES OLSON THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 11 by KENNETH REXROTH THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47 by KENNETH REXROTH A MAY MONODY by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD |
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