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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ALL IN HAVEN, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye who have gained the haven of safe days
Last Line: That is in dreadful fellowship with night.
Subject(s): Rest
First Line: All ye who have gained the haven of safe days
Last Line: That is in dreadful fellowship with night.
Subject(s): Rest
All ye who have gained the haven of safe days,
And rest at ease, your wanderings being done,
Except the last, inevitable one,
Be well content, I say, and hear men's praise:
Yet in the quiet of your sheltered bays,--
Bland waters shining in an equal sun,--
Forget not that the awful storm-tides run
In far, unsheltered, and tempestuous ways:
Remember near what rocks, and through what shoals.
Worn, desperate mariners strain with all their might:
They may not come to your sweet restful goals,
Your waters placid in the level light:--
Their graves wait in that sea no moon controls,
That is in dreadful fellowship with Night.
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