English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. For Music. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк)

For Music

ALONG the shore, along the shore
I see the wavelets meeting:
But thee I see--ah, never more,
For all my wild heart's beating.
The little wavelets come and go,
The tide of life ebbs to and fro,
Advancing and retreating:
But from the shore, the steadfast shore,
The sea is parted never:
And mine I hold thee evermore,
Forever and forever.

Along the shore, along the shore
I hear the waves resounding,
But thou wilt cross them nevermore
For all my wild heart's bounding:
The moon comes out above the tide
And quiets all the billows wide
Her pathway bright surrounding:
Thus on the shore, the dreary shore,
I walk with weak endeavor:
I have thy love's light evermore,
Forever and forever.

Dinah Maria Craik’s other poems:

1. Mortality
2. A German Student’s Funeral Hymn
3. “Philip, My King”
4. Labor Is Prayer
5. To a Beautiful Woman

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Menella Smedley (Менелла Смедли) For Music (“Weep not for death”)

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