Ban and Arriere Ban

Boat-song

Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344

Boat-song

Adrift, with starlit skies above,

With starlit seas below,

We move with all the suns that move,

With all the seas that flow:

For, bond or free, earth, sky, and sea,

Wheel with one central will,

And thy heart drifteth on to me,

And only Time stands still.

Between two shores of death we drift,

Behind are things forgot,

Before, the tide is racing swift

To shores man knoweth not.

Above, the sky is far and cold,

Below, the moaning sea

Sweeps o'er the loves that were of old,

But thou, Love, love thou me.

Ah, lonely are the ocean ways,

And dangerous the deep,

And frail the fairy barque that strays

Above the seas asleep.

Ah, toil no more with helm or oar,

We drift, or bond or free,

On yon far shore the breakers roar,

But thou, Love, love thou me!

About Andrew Lang

Text

Summary

Ban and Arriere Ban

A Scot to Jeanne d'Arc

How they held the Bass for King James

Three portraits of Prince Charles

From Omar Khayyam

Aesop

Les Roses de Sadi

The Haunted Tower

Boat-song

Lost Love

The Promise of Helen

The Restoration of Romance

Central American Antiquities in South Kensington Museum

On Calais Sands

Ballade of Yule

Poscimur

On his Dead Sea-Mew

From Meleager

On the Garland Sent to Rhodocleia

A Galloway Garland

Celia's Eyes

Britannia

Gallia

The Fairy Minister

To Robert Louis Stevenson

For Mark Twain's Jubilee

Poems Written under the Influence of Wordsworth

Mist

Lines

Ode to Golf

Freshman's Term

A Toast

Death in June

To Correspondents

Ballade of Difficult Rhymes

Ballant o'Ballantrae

Song by the Sub-Conscious Self

The Haunted Homes of England

The Disappointment

To the Gentle Reader

The Sonnet

The Tournay of the Heroes

Ballad of the Philanthropist

Neiges d'Antan

In Ercildoune

For a Rose's Sake

The Brigand's Grave

The New-Liveried Year

More Strong than Death

Silentia Lunae

His Lady's Tomb

The Poet's Apology

Sorry, no summary available yet.

Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily

In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time.

Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter

Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time.