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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES FOR H.F. BROWN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing
Last Line: I in my lesiure made the present verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sea Voyages
First Line: Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing
Last Line: I in my lesiure made the present verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sea Voyages
Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing
Wind in the clouds and rainy sea-horizon,
Empty and lit with low, nocturnal glimmer,
How in the strong, deep-plunging, transatlantic
Emigrant ship we sang our songs in chorus.
Piping, the gull flew by, the roaring billows
Yawned and resounded round the mighty vessel
Infinite uproar, endless contradiction;
Yet over all our chorus rose reminding
Wanderers here at sea of unforgotten
Homes and undying, old, memorial loves.
Brown in his haste demanded this from me.
I in my lesiure made the present verse.
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