Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROEM, AFTER READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIGURATIVE VERSE, by HENRY AYLETT SAMPSON


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PROEM, AFTER READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIGURATIVE VERSE, by                    
First Line: These have survived the seas' vicissitudes
Last Line: While in the dusk the evening star grows bright.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


These have survived the seas' vicissitudes
And lie at rest within this quiet bay.
No more of shifting tides and fickle winds in play --
These Tyrian galleys know soft interludes,
When o'er their cargo some old lover broods
And sees again a verse that slipped away,
Or hears a mocking bird, in moonlit May
Make vocal Nature's holiest haunting moods.
Dream ships, we never thought to look on more,
Saint Anthony has tipped your spars with fire
And salved you from the menace of the night.
Rest, fairy craft, rest on a fairy shore!
Faint bells ring welcome from a viewless spire,
While in the dusk the evening star grows bright.





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