Explore "On the Jetty" by Edwina Stanton Babcock on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Still the old rage, O Sea? / Blue lightnings buried under snowy shock / Of white foam-bodies dying on the rock; / Such sobbing passion to be still more free -- / Still the old yearning... Sea?
Still the old secret... Sky? / Cloud galleons sailing for some coast of Dream, / And robber winds a-gallop for the gleam / Of Western gold where purple banners fly -- / Still the old questing... Sky?
Still the old bondage... Heart? / Slave to a beauty that defeats the mind; / Enchained, whose bondage even yet may find / True words, the whole glad wonder to impart / Meaning of Sea and Sky and Thee... O Heart!