Enoch Arden (tennyson)

Long narrative poem.
Arresting.
Cites a sailor’s life and testing.
Took to bigger ships
To catch the bigger pay.
Wife and children, left behind.
But no, never lost from mind.
Even after shipwreck
One cruel day.
Three prevailed and washed ashore.
But two died, survival lore
Came to be the remedy
For years alone.
Paradise, it could have been.
Sun and surf and foods and wind.
But rescue, ah the rescue
Was his song.
Wake!
A ship, a ship arrives
With some weary foreign lives.
And they take aboard the Castaway
And hunger that is His
But back home in England’s mist
Enoch sad, avoids the Kiss.
Wife and offspring, now
To make a Miller’s bliss.
Contact, none for conscience sake.
And a hostel bed he makes
With his Landlady, who cares
For goodness sakes.