+- Sonett-Forum (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Sonett-Archiv (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=126)
+--- Forum: Sonette aus germanischen Sprachen (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=394)
+---- Forum: Englische Sonette (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=818)
+----- Forum: Autoren H (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=836)
+------ Forum: Andere Autoren H (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1021)
+------ Thema: Holmes, Edmond G. A.: Eternal Vigil (/showthread.php?tid=16160)
Holmes, Edmond G. A.: Eternal Vigil - ZaunköniG - 01.07.2007
Eternal Vigil
Oh! once again upon thy heaving breast
I floated, like a seabird when it braves
The shoreward onset of thy flowing waves
And leaps triumphant on each rushing crest:
Round me in dark magnificent unrest,
The billows of the wild Atlantic rolled
Far, far away, into the gates of gold,
The sunlit portals of the stormy west:
O never wearied! In the hush of noon
Thy billows break the paths of golden sleep:
They break the dreamlike lustre of the moon
Earth knows the hours of darkness: thou dost keep
Eternal vigil: still thy surges white
Flash through the deepest gloom of starless night.