SWEET! I linger, but for thee Cold and sad like yon grey Sea. Very life sleeps in thy love, My best merit far above, Far as the high Sun now lending Hope of a divine descending. One fond look, that ere I go I may glisten in its glow! Storm clouds brooding all the day Oft have quenched a struggling ray; Yet ere Sun and Sea are parted It one kindling glance has darted. One soft sigh before I leave, Like a wistful breath at eve, That when joyless gloom has cleared, And the Sun and Sea have neared, Seems to ask in plaintive wonder, How the two could sulk asunder! One embrace before we sever For lone hours, perchance for ever! Night draws no sad curtain mist Till the two aflame have kissed: Ere I sleep, let such a greeting Pledge us a bright morrow's meeting. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOLDIER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CRITIC AND POET by EMMA LAZARUS DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |