Oh! once again upon thy heaving breast I floated, like a seabird when it braves The shoreward onset of thy flowing waves And leaps triumphant on each rushing crest: Round me in dark magnificent unrest, The billows of the wild Atlantic rolled Far, far away, into the gates of gold, The sunlit portals of the stormy west: O never wearied! In the hush of noon Thy billows break the paths of golden sleep: They break the dreamlike lustre of the moon: Earth knows the hours of darkness: thou dost keep Eternal vigil: still thy surges white Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET FIRST FRUIT by ISAAC ROSENBERG HELEN OF TROY by SARA TEASDALE |