| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Two Days | | By Melville Madison Bigelow (1846–1921) |
| | | ALL sodden yesterday were sea and sky; | |
| A rood, perhaps, beyond the strand—not more— | |
| The straining eye could dimly pierce. The roar | |
| Of reefs unseen died in a sullen sigh. | |
| Crept shuddering back ships that would blasts defy; | 5 |
| In shrouds close, wet, and chill they hugged the shore, | |
| While momently, that waste of waters o’er, | |
| The deep-mouthed fog-horn poured a moaning cry. | |
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| To-day the merry Morn, with glorious flight, | |
| Wheels up the jocund East, and gilds the deep. | 10 |
| The ships of yesterday, aglow with light, | |
| Crowd on full sail, and seaward lordly sweep; | |
| And I, I gaze with glad but baffled sight, | |
| That from such boding gloom such life can leap. | | | | |
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