Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STORMY SEA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the twilight bat was flitting Last Line: "home returned to love and thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages | ||||||||
I. ERE the twilight bat was flitting, In the sunset, at her knitting, Sang a lonely maiden, sitting Underneath her threshold tree; And, as daylight died before us, And the vesper star shone o'er us, Fitful rose her tender chorus "Jamie's on the stormy sea!" II. Warmly shone that sunset glowing; Sweetly breathed the young flowers blowing; Earth, with beauty overflowing, Seem'd the home of love to be, As those angel tones ascending, With the scene and season blending, Ever had the same low ending "Jamie's on the stormy sea!" III. Curfew bells remotely ringing, Mingled with that sweet voice singing; And the last red rays seem'd clinging Lingeringly to tower and tree: Nearer as I came, and nearer, Finer rose the notes, and clearer; O! 'twas Heaven itself to hear her "Jamie's on the stormy sea!" IV. Blow, ye west winds! blandly hover O'er the bark that bears my lover; Gently blow, and bear him over To his own dear home and me; For, when night winds bend the willow, Sleep forsakes my lonely pillow, Thinking of the foaming billow "Jamie's on the stormy sea!" V. How could I but list, but linger, To the song, and near the singer, Sweetly wooing Heaven to bring her Jamie from the stormy sea: And, while yet her lips did name me, Forth I sprangmy heart o'ercame me "Grieve no more, sweet, I am Jamie, Home returned to love and thee!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV LEAVING FOREVER by DENISE LEVERTOV SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL SHACKLETON by MADELINE DEFREES QE2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY. by RITA DOVE MANHATTAN, 1609 by EDWIN MARKHAM CROSSING THE ATLANTIC by ANNE SEXTON THE INDIA WHARF by SARA TEASDALE THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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