As two proud ships upon the pathless main Meet once and never hope to meet again, -- Meet once with merry signallings, and part, Each homeward bound to swell the crowded mart, So we two met, one golden summer day, Within the shelter of life's dreaming bay, And rested, calmly anchored from the world, For one brief hour, with snowy pinions furled; But when the sun sank low along the west, We left our harbor, with its peaceful rest, And floated outward in life's tangled sea With foam-kissed waves between us, wild and free. As two ships part upon the trackless main, So we two parted. Shall we meet again? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE by GEORGE DARLEY THE TRUTH by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES ON THE DEPARTURE PLATFORM by THOMAS HARDY ON THE COLLAR OF MRS. DINGLEY'S LAP-DOG by JONATHAN SWIFT TO THINK OF TIME by WALT WHITMAN A WOMAN'S APOLOGY by ALFRED AUSTIN THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |