The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

Original Text
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes, Riverside Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), III, 254-55. PS 2250 E90 Robarts Library.
1The tide rises, the tide falls,
2The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
3Along the sea-sands damp and brown
4The traveller hastens toward the town,
5    And the tide rises, the tide falls.
6Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
7But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
8The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
9Efface the footprints in the sands,
10    And the tide rises, the tide falls.
11The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
12Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
13The day returns, but nevermore
14Returns the traveller to the shore,
15    And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Publication Start Year
1880
Publication Notes
In Ultima Thule
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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