WE sail toward evening-s lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;
One single cloud, a dusky bar,
Burnt with dull carmine through and through,
Slow smouldering in the summer sky,
Lies low along the fading west.
How sweet to watch its splendors die,
Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressed!
The soft breeze freshens, leaps the spray
To kiss our cheeks, with sudden cheer;
Upon the dark edge of the bay
Lighthouses kindle, far and near,
And through the warm deeps of the sky
Steal faint star-clusters, while we rest
In deep refreshment, thou and I,
Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressed.
How like a dream are earth and heaven,
Star-beam and darkness, sky and sea;
Thy face, pale in the shadowy even,
Thy quiet eyes that gaze on me!
O realize the moment-s charm,
Thou dearest! we are at life-s best,
Folded in God-s encircling arm,
Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressed.
Song
Celia Thaxter
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Poem topics: cloud, dark, dream, god, heaven, kiss, life, lonely, sea, summer, evening, tender, blue, edge, earth, sweet, deep, single, moment, face, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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