On the sightless seas of ether, Rudderless, without a sail, Choirs of stars uplift their voices, Where the mist-waves rise and fail. Through the hemless fields of heaven Wander wide and tracelessly Clouds, unshepherded, unnumbered, Pale, ephemeral and free. Hour of parting, hour of meeting, Neither gladden them, nor fret; Theirs no yearning toward the future, Theirs no haunting of regret. On the grim day of disaster These remember, worlds away: Be beyond earth's reach as these are, And indifferent as they. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW TO GET ON IN SOCIETY by JOHN BETJEMAN WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK by ELIZABETH I UNDER THE WATERFALL by THOMAS HARDY ROBINSON CRUSOE by MOTHER GOOSE ANGEL OR WOMAN by THOMAS PARNELL SONGS OF TRAVEL: 26. IF THIS WERE FAITH by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |