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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALONE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poet's Biography
First Line: My love and I sailed out to sea
Last Line: For the wave that will bring me to her again.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: My love and I sailed out to sea
Last Line: For the wave that will bring me to her again.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
MY love and I sailed out to sea
When the dream days came with purpling sky,
And her laugh was the winds at play, to me,
And her eyes the stars I guided by.
Her hand touched mine, 'mid the breaker's roar,
And new strength came to the lagging oar—
Her lips met mine in the tempest's blast
And new life flashed in the straining mast.
My love and I sailed out to sea,
And life was full and sweet for me,
Till our boat plunged under a death-wave dark—
And I sailed alone in a drifting barque!
Now the skies are gray, and the winds at play
Mourn drearily o'er the sea all day,
And I look in vain through the fog and rain
For the wave that will bring me to her again.
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