 | Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson |  |
BALLADE OF DEAD MARINERS: ENVOI
Days follow days till years and years are fled;Years follow years till hopes and cares are dead,
And life's hard billows boom their message home:
Love is the strongest where no words are said,
And women wait for ships that never come.
| Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson | |