The Dread Voyage: Poems

Chapter 39: ON THE SHORE.

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The collection gathers lyrical and narrative poems that move between storm-borne sea voyages, winter and seasonal landscapes, and intimate meditations on love, guilt, death, and memory. Imagery is vivid and elemental—wind, ice, waves, and night recur—while voices shift from elegiac solitude to dramatic confession. Several pieces use dreamlike and mythic resonance to explore fate and remorse; others observe rural and shoreline scenes with tonal shifts from awe to foreboding. The sequence alternates compressed narrative episodes and reflective lyrics, creating an atmosphere of haunting inevitability and contemplative mourning.

ON THE SHORE.

AGE.

With golden spicèd dreams blows in the dawn, About the cool blue bosom of the lake; Far over wave and shore wild voices wake, The watery curves and windy reeds upon, Where the young glory of the day dreams on; And wingèd creatures haunts of sleep forsake, And dreams and silence their dim ways betake Round the grey edge where lidded night hath gone.

Here all is young and glad, the laughing shore The sunshine, the glad birds, no memories On haggard faces wistful to forget; Save yon old man beside the rude hut door, With palsied hands, chin bending to his knees, Mending dead youth in meshes of a net.