Snowy sails, silvery sails, Gleaming in the sun, Leaving scores of jewelled trails In the course you run, On your white wings bear away All my care and pain; I would for at least to-day Be a child again. Just to thrill with youthful fire, Kindling heart and brain, Just to know the old desire Lofty heights to gain; Just to hold the simple faith Into which I grew, When my God was not a wraith, And all men were true! Shadowed sails, clouded sails, Life hath made me know That you leave no jewelled trails, Proudly though you go; Drops that floods of diamonds seem Are but dazzling spray, Fleeting as a happy dream, Swift to fade away. Distant sails, waning sails, Waft me to some shore Where corroding care prevails Never, nevermore! Where the flotsam of the deep Finds its wanderings cease, And the shipwrecked sink to sleep On the strand of peace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAIRY TALE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988) by MARVIN BELL THE WOMEN WITH FABLED HAIR by MADELINE DEFREES MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |