Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VOYAGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poet's Biography First Line: Who climbs the equatorial main Last Line: It sees all heaven before its view. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
WHO climbs the Equatorial main Drives on long time through mist and cloud, Through zones of storm, through thunders loud, For many a night of fear and pain. Till one night all is clear, and lo! He sees with wondering, awe-struck eyes, In depths above, in depths below, Strange constellations light the skies -- New stars, more splendid and more fair, Yet not without a secret loss: He seeks in vain the Northern Bear, And finds instead the Southern Cross. Yet dawns the self-same sun -- the same The deep below the keel which lies; Though this may burn with brighter flame, And that respond to bluer skies, The self-same earth, the self-same sky: And though through clouds and tempests driven, The self-same seeker lifts an eye That sees another side of heaven. No change in man, or earth, or aught, Save those strange secrets of the night; Nor there, save that another thought Has reached them through another sight, Which may but know one hemisphere, The earth's mass blotting out the blue, Till one day, leaving shadows here, It sees all heaven before its view. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING A CAROL by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) |
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