Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AS I SAIL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far on the gray sea glooms and glowers Last Line: And poets love while love is new. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
FAR on the gray sea glooms and glowers, Far off the salt winds vaguely stray, And through the long monotonous hours My thoughts go wandering on their way; Go back to find that earlier time When, lingering by a bluer sea, A poet wooed me with his rhyme, And all the world was changed for me. The winds to music strange were set, The sunsets glowed with sudden flame, And all the shining sands were wet With waves that whispered as they came, And told a tender low-breathed tale Of love that always should be young; Dear love that should not change or fail, -- Such love as love-lorn bards have sung. Pale roses bloomed by that far sea, And shivered at the sea-wind's breath; A bird flew low, and sang to me -- "The end of love and life is death." I left the pale rose where it grew; I would not heed the warning bird; Of all the world I, only, knew How sweet the music I had heard, -- How dear the love, how true the truth My poet uttered in his rhyme; And how it gave me back my youth In that deep-hearted summer-time. Then winter came; the pale rose died, And to the south the wise bird flew; And I -- ah me, the world is wide, And poets love while love is new. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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