I have fled from all, and none can now <br /> <br /> My way, my wanderings see; <br /> <br />The waters widely round me flow— <br /> <br /> I feel that I am free! <br /> <br /> <br />Oh! who can wish for sunny day, <br />When they may look on that lovely ray— <br />On the moon so pure, so clear, and fair, <br /> When no human form is nigh, <br />When no human voice can startle the air? <br /> All is silence and secrecy. <br /> <br />No sound but the waters, that, murmuring, move— <br />No light but the shadowless orb above. <br />But see! the shadows are gathering fast— <br /> The clear bright orb is gone: <br />Alas! no beauty can ever last, <br /> That e'er I gaze upon! <br /> <br />The waters that sparkled so bright before <br />Now moan alone the gloomy shore; <br />And all is dark—as the fate will be <br />That spreads its cheerless path for me!<br /><br />Louisa Stuart Costello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-on-the-sea-shore/
