SWEET recognition, when the soul looks out Just for an instant from the unveiled eyes, And love in either heart grows rich and wise, Too glad for fear, too absolute for doubt! As a ship in mid-ocean tossed about, Suddenly sighting with a glad surprise Another toiler under the same skies To the same port, puts all her signals out, So, when thy life my life's horizon crossed, A fellow-voyager to the far shore Toward which I sailed, but one more strong and brave, Whose courage had won much my faltering lost;— Our hearts joined company, through wind and wave And stress of weather, kin for evermore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO FUNERALS: 2. by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 2 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE OLD BRIDGE by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER |