<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Distant Ship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea-bird's wing, o'er ocean's breast<br>Shoots like a glancing star,<br>While the red radiance of the west<br>Spreads kindling fast and far;<br>And yet that splendour wins thee not,–<br>Thy still and thoughtful eye<br>Dwells but on one dark distant spot<br>Of all the main and sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look round thee!–o'er the slumbering deep<br>A solemn glory broods;<br>A fire hath touch'd the beacon-steep,<br>And all the golden woods;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thousand gorgeous clouds on high<br>Burn with the amber light!–<br>What spell, from that rich pageantry,<br>Chains down thy gazing sight? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A softening thought of human cares,<br>A feeling link'd to earth!<br>Is not yon speck a bark, which bears<br>The lov'd of many a hearth?<br>Oh! do not Hope, and Grief, and Fear,<br>Crowd her frail world even now,<br>And manhood's prayer and woman's tear,<br>Follow her venturous prow? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright are the floating clouds above,<br>The glittering seas below;<br>But we are bound by cords of love<br>To kindred weal and wo. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore, amidst this wide array<br>Of glorious things and fair,<br>My soul is on that bark's lone way,–<br>For human hearts are there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391597" data-title="The Distant Ship de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="The sea-bird's wing, o'er ocean's breast Shoots like a glancing star, While the red radiance of the west Spreads kindling fast and far; And yet that splendour wins thee not,– Thy still and thoughtful eye Dwells but on one dark distant spot ..."></div> </div> </div>

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