BARK, bravest in battle of billow and breeze! True tower in the tempest, dry deck in the seas! When flash the wild waters, in mountains of might! You leap through the breakers with bounds of delight! The high, bright tide! the high, bright tide! Queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! My beautiful bark on the high, bright tide! With robes from the Indies I've dighted my fair, How swells her white bosom against the blue air! Right buoyant the craft below, shapely the sail, And, O God! but to see her rise out of the gale! On the high, bright tide! the high, bright tide! Queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! My beautiful bark on the high, bright tide! 'Grey Deelan, who stands with unchangeable brow, Behold how the surges race off from her prow, Behold, and give judgment if ever you've seen Bark on the waters to peer with my queen.' On the high, bright tide! the high, bright tide! Queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! My beautiful bark on the high, bright tide! Then answered grey Deelan: 'Since first I withstood The roar-rush of ocean's tumultuous flood, By night and day watch I, but never could mark From seaward or shoreward, a bark like thy bark!' On the high, bright tide! the high, bright tide! Queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! My beautiful bark on the high, bright tide! 'Lord of the heavens!' the mariners pray, 'Give succour, give shelter, keep, keep her away! She cleaves the blue billows, she comes like a flash, And through us and o'er us she'll instantly dash!' On the high, bright tide! the high, bright tide! Queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! My beautiful bark on the high, bright tide! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE AFTER A LECTURE ON KEATS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A LAST PRAYER by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON A DEFIANCE, RETURNING TO THE PLACE OF HIS PAST AMOURS by PHILIP AYRES NOVEMB. 5. 1644 by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |