OUTBOUND, your bark awaits you. Were I one Whose prayer availeth much, my wish should be Your favoring trade-wind and consenting sea. By sail or steed was never love outrun, And, here or there, love follows her in whom All graces and sweet charities unite, The old Greek beauty set in holier light; And her for whom New England's by-ways bloom, Who walks among us welcome as the Spring, Calling up blossoms where her light feet stray. God keep you both, make beautiful your way, Comfort, console, and bless; and safely bring, Ere yet I make upon a vaster sea The unreturning voyage, my friends to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 8 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE by HERMAN MELVILLE ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY I SIT AND LOOK OUT by WALT WHITMAN DELAY by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES |