Safe
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
Wild wintry wind, storm through the night,
Dash the black clouds against the sky,
Hiss through the billows seething white,
Fling the rock-surf in spray on high.
Hurl the high seas on harbour bars,
Madden them with thy havock-shriek
Against the crimson beacon-stars --
Thy rage no more can make me weak.
The ship rides safely in the bay,
The ship that held my hope in her --
Whirl on, wild wind, in thy wild fray,
We hear our whispers through the stir.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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