My Love is sailed, against Dislike to fight, Which, like vild monster, threatens his decay: The ship is Hope, which, by Desire's great might, Is swiftly borne towards the wished bay: The company which with my Love doth fare, Though met in one, is a dissenting crew: They are Joy, Grief, and never-sleeping Care, And Doubt, which ne'er believes good news for true Black Fear the flag is, which my ship doth bear, Which, Dear, take down, if my Love victor be: And let white Comfort in his place appear, When Love victoriously returns to me; Lest I from rock Despair come tumbling down, And in a sea of tears be forced to drown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WORLD-SOUL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE RUSH OF THE OREGON by ARTHUR GUITERMAN CLORINDA AND DAMON by ANDREW MARVELL RED TREASURE by CAROLYN AUSTIN PSALM 8, SELECTION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 36. FEAR HAS CAST OUT LOVE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON A MEMORIAL ABSTRACT OF A SERMON PREACHED ON PROVERBS, XX, 27 by JOHN BYROM |