I

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Sabbath Morning at Sea

THE ship went on with solemn face:

To meet the darkness on the deep,

            The solemn ship went onward.

I bowed down weary in the place;

      For parting tears and present sleep

            Had weighed mine eyelids downward.

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