Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUTWARD BOUND, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYLEE First Line: Farewell! For now a stormy morn and dark Last Line: Only our love and prayers. Subject(s): Assassination; Mckinley, William (1843-1901) | ||||||||
FAREWELL! for now a stormy morn and dark The hour of greeting and of parting brings: Already on the rising wind yon bark Spreads her impatient wings. Too hasty keel, a little while delay! A moment tarry, O thou hurrying dawn! For long and sad will be the mourners' day When their beloved is gone. But vain the hands that beckon from the shore: Alike our passion and our grief are vain. Behind him lies our little world: before The illimitable main. Yet, none the less, about his moving bed Immortal eyes a tireless vigil keep -- An angel at the feet and at the head Guard his untroubled sleep. Two nations bowed above a common bier, Made one forever by a martyred son -- One in their agony of hope and fear, And in their sorrow one. And thou, lone traveller, of a waste so wide, The uncharted seas that all must pass in turn, May the same star that was so long thy guide O'er thy last voyage burn. No eye can reach where through you sombre veil That bark to its eternal haven fares; No earthly breezes swell its shadowy sail: Only our love and prayers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE COMFORT OF THE TREES by RICHARD WATSON GILDER WILLIAM MCKINLEY by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH by RICHARD HANDFIELD TITHERINGTON THE ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS "MCKINLEY [SEPTEMBER 6, 1901]" by ANONYMOUS NUMBER ONE MAN ON THE SIT-DOWN POWER MOWERS AT LAKEWOOD CEMETERY by KEITH GUNDERSON THE WILLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 1. OFF GIBRALTAR by SARA TEASDALE THE PLOUGHER [OR PLOWER] by PADRAIC COLUM AGAINST THEM WHO LAY UNCHASTITY TO THE SEX OF WOMAN by WILLIAM HABINGTON FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA by MAY SINCLAIR |
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