HERE goes Love! Now cut him clear, A weight about his neck: If he linger longer here, Our ship will be a wreck. Overboard! Overboard! Down let him go! In the deep he may sleep Where the corals grow. He said he'd woo the gentle breeze, A bright tear in her eye; But she was false or hard to please, Or he has told a lie. Overboard! overboard! Down in the sea He may find a truer mind, Where the mermaids be. He sang us many a merry song While the breeze was kind; But he has been lamenting long The falseness of the wind. Overboard! overboard! Under the wave Let him sing where smooth shells ring In the ocean's cave. He may struggle; he may weep; We'll be stern and cold; His grief will find, within the deep, More tears than can be told. He has gone overboard! We will float on; We shall find a truer wind, Now that he is gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAT by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON BIRDS by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE SAINT AGNES' EVE by ALFRED TENNYSON FAREWELL TO CYNTHIA by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS STANZAS TO A LADY by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE H. SACRAMENT by JOSEPH BEAUMONT VENETIAN BLIND by HELEN DARBY BERNING |