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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIDNIGHT SAILING, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN
First Line: The pier is dark; and shadows creep
Last Line: And she was too late to say good-bye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting
First Line: The pier is dark; and shadows creep
Last Line: And she was too late to say good-bye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting
The pier is dark; and shadows creep.
Is that a sound of creaking chain?
Not all the ships that sail the deep
Can bear away such black despair,
Take from a heart such clutching pain.
Not the liner's hulk, but looming fears
Move her to cry: "Dear one, the years!"
And:
There was a word, chief of its clan,
That means to lovers what farewells can,
Though cast as light as a fisherman's fly:
And she was too late to say good-bye.
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