White sail upon the distant blue Swift flying shallop with your snowy wings, Here from the shore I waft to you A message that a poet sings. I bless you as you fade afar Where heaving sea and heaven merge, A faintly gleaming silver star Upon the trembling ocean's verge. May gentle winds from spotless skies And halcyon seas about you play, And all of Heaven's guardian eyes Keep myriad watch upon your way. May dolphins spout their silvery brine Before your swift melodious keel, And whitest suns upon you shine As fleckless days about you wheel. And when the far-off headland's slope Uprears its beaconed star above And lights the haven of your hope, My blessing waft you to your love. Oh happy be the meeting then When heart beats joyous unto heart, And from the deep shall draw again Two gracious spirits long apart. And may that love in blessing prove Its kinship to my distant prayer; Though all the seas be my remove, Let me your blessing share. For as I pray that blessing on Both you and yours across the sea, May your fair Love's sweet benison In turn pour down on mine and me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN TRIFLE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON AGING TOGETHER by CLARENCE MAJOR IF HE SHOULD COME by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM AND EMILY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ILLINOIS FARMER by CARL SANDBURG |