I Explain The Silvered Passing Of A Ship At Night

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Title:     I Explain The Silvered Passing Of A Ship At Night
Author: Stephen Crane [More Titles by Crane]

I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving,
The little cry of a man to a man,
A shadow falling across the greyer night,
And the sinking of the small star;

Then the waste, the far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.

Remember, thou, O ship of love,
Thou leavest a far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.

[The end]
Stephen Crane's poem: I Explain The Silvered Passing Of A Ship At Night

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