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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THERE in his room, whene’er the moon looks in,<br>And silvers now a shell, and now a fin,<br>And o’er his chart glides like an argosy,<br>Quiet and old sits he.<br>Danger! he hath grown homesick for thy smile. <br>Where hidest thou the while, heart’s boast,<br>Strange face of beauty sought and lost,<br>Star-face that lured him out from boyhood’s isle?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Blown clear from dull indoors, his dreams behold<br>Night-water smoke and sparkle as of old, <br>The taffrail lurch, the sheets triumphant toss<br>Their phosphor-flowers across.<br>Towards ocean’s either rim the long-exiled<br>Wears on, till stunted cedars throw<br>A lace-like shadow over snow, <br>Or tropic fountains wash their agates wild.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Awhile, play up and down the briny spar<br>Odors of Surinam and Zanzibar,<br>Till blithely thence he ploughs, in visions new,<br>The Labradorian blue; <br>All homeless hurricanes about him break;<br>The purples of spent day he sees<br>From Samos to the Hebrides,<br>And drowned men dancing darkly in his wake.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Where the small deadly foam-caps, well descried, <br>Top, tier on tier, the hundred-mountained tide,<br>Away, and far away, his pride is borne,<br>Riding the noisy morn,<br>Plunges, and preens her wings, and laughs to know<br>The helm and tightening halyards still <br>Follow the urging of his will,<br>And scoff at sullen earth a league below.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Mischance hath barred him from his heirdom high,<br>And shackled him with many an inland tie,<br>And of his only wisdom made a jibe <br>Amid an alien tribe:<br>No wave abroad but moans his fallen state.<br>The trade-wind ranges now, the trade-wind roars!<br>Why is it on a yellowing page he pores?<br>Ah, why this hawser fast to a garden gate? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thou friend so long withdrawn, so deaf, so dim,<br>Familiar Danger, O forget not him!<br>Repeat of thine evangel yet the whole<br>Unto his subject soul,<br>Who suffers no such palsy of her drouth, <br>Nor hath so tamely worn her chain,<br>But she may know that voice again,<br>And shake the reefs with answer of her mouth.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">O give him back, before his passion fail,<br>The singing cordage and the hollow sail, <br>And level with those aged eyes let be<br>The bright unsteady sea;<br>And move like any film from off his brain<br>The pasture wall, the boughs that run<br>Their evening arches to the sun, <br>The hamlet spire across the sown champaign;</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=450095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And on the shut space and the trivial hour,<br>Turn the great floods! and to thy spousal bower,<br>With rapt arrest and solemn loitering,<br>Him whom thou lovedst bring: <br>That he, thy faithful one, with praising lip,<br>Not having, at the last, less grace<br>Of thee than had his roving race,<br>Sum up his strength to perish with a ship.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Louise+Imogen+Guiney">Louise Imogen Guiney</a></strong></div>