AVE! now let prayer and music Meet in love on earth and sea! Now, sweet Mother! may the weary Turn from this cold world to thee! From the wide and restless waters Hear the sailor's hymn arise? From his watch-fire midst the mountains, Lo! to thee the shepherd cries! Yet, when thus full hearts find voices, If o'erburdened souls there be, Dark and silent in their anguish, Aid those captives! set them free! Touch them, every fount unsealing Where the frozen tears lie deep; Thou, the Mother of all sorrows, Aid! oh, aid to pray and weep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEA SLUMBER-SONG by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE FOOL AND THE POET by ALEXANDER POPE LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN THE LAST MAN: MEDITATION by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 1 by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3 by ROBERT BROWNING PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY |