TIDES
by: Helen Hunt Jackson
(1830-1885)
- patient
shore, thou canst not go to meet
- Thy love, the restless sea, how comfortest
- Thou all thy loneliness? Art thou at rest,
- When, loosing his strong arms from round thy feet,
- He turns away? Know'st thou, however sweet
- That other shore may be, that to thy breast
- He must return? And when in sterner test
- He folds thee to a heart which does not beat,
- Wraps thee in ice, and gives no smile, no kiss,
- To break long wintry days, still dost thou miss
- Naught from thy trust? Still wait, unfaltering,
- The higher, warmer waves which leap in spring?
- O sweet, wise shore, to be so satisfied!
- O heart, learn from the shore! Love has a tide!
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