<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ships that Pass in the Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; <br> I look far out into the pregnant night,<br> Where I can hear the solemn booming gun<br> And catch the gleaming of a random light,<br> That tells me that the ship I seek<br>is passing, passing.<br> My tearful eyes my soul's deep hurt are glassing;<br> For I would hail and check that ship of ships.<br> I stretch my hands imploring, cry aloud,<br> My voice falls dead a foot from mine own lips,<br> And but its ghost doth reach that vessel, passing, passing.<br> O Earth, O Sky, O Ocean, both surpassing,<br> O heart of mine, O soul that dreads the dark!<br> Is there no hope for me? Is there no way<br> That I may sight and check that speeding bark<br> Which out of sight and sound is passing, passing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477808" data-title="Ships that Pass in the Night de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I can hear the solemn booming gun And catch the gleaming of a random light, That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing. My tearful ey..."></div> </div> </div>

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