Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left
Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


Their ships sailed on—sailed on; was left
My bark to struggle with the storm;
And of their beckoning smiles bereft,
I sat till twilight wrapped my form.
And still I sail and sail 'mid stress
Of seas and change of day and night;
Though tossed upon the waves' distress,
Somehow I glide into the light.

I know not how the skies grow clear,
Nor do I see the guiding hand,
As 'midst the changing floods I steer,
My eyes upon a distant band
Of light that shows a nearing shore.
I think it is the gleam of day,
Where they await me evermore
Whose ships sailed on and far away.





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