I'M waiting for my darling, Here, sitting by the sea, Whom never any ship that sails Brings home again to me. "Oh, sailor! have you seen her? You'd know her by her eyes, -- So blue they are, so tender, So full of glad surprise." "Yes, I have seen your darling: A fair wind never fails To waft the good ship unto The shore for which she sails. "King Death they call the Captain, -- His crew a spectral band, -- He steers with pennons flying Toward a far-off land. "No other ship goes thither, And back across that main, The passengers he carries He never brings again." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAY MAGNIFICAT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 7. ON THE USE OF POETRY by MARK AKENSIDE SONG OF AN ATOM by JOSEPHINE BARNETT THE BLACK FOREST ACOST by KATHRYN BLOOM BLESS THE BLESSED MORN by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR LINES ON REVISITING THE COUNTRY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |