The Ship of Life
Based on Henry Van Dyke’s “The Parable of Immortality” Along the shore I spy a ship As she sets out to sea; She spreads her sails and sniffs the breeze And slips away from me. …
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To the End of Love
The bridegroom took his budding love, they snuck off to the side, and while the wedding party danced, he whispered to his bride. The nighttime draped the garden path in olive, and the lush …
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
I who am dead a thousand years,And wrote this sweet archaic song,Send you my words for messengersThe way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas,Or ride secure the cruel …
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things You have …