I loiter by this surging sea, <br />Here, by this surging, sooming sea, <br />Here, by this wailing, wild-faced sea, <br />Dreaming through the dreamy night; <br />Yearning for a strange delight! <br />Will it ever, ever, ever fly to me, <br />By this surging sea, <br />By this surging, sooming sea, <br />By this wailing, wild-faced sea? <br /> <br />I know some gentle spirit lives, <br />Some loving, lonely spirit lives, <br />Some melancholy spirit lives, <br />Walking o'er the earth for me, <br />Searching round the world for me! <br />Will she ever, ever, ever hither come? <br />Where the waters roam, <br />Where the sobbing waters roam! <br />Where the raving waters roam! <br /> <br />All worn and wasted by the storms, <br />All gapped and fractured by the storms, <br />All split and splintered by the storms, <br />Overhead the caverns groan, <br />Gloomy, ghastly caverns groan! - <br />Will she ever, ever, ever fill this heart? <br />Peace, O longing heart! <br />Peace, O longing, beating heart! <br />Peace, O beating, weary heart!<br /><br />Henry Kendall<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/waiting-and-wishing/
