Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VII. Death: Immortality: Heaven | | Crossing the Bar | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | | SUNSET and evening star, | |
| And one clear call for me! | |
| And may there be no moaning of the bar, | |
| When I put out to sea, | |
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| But such a tide as moving seems asleep, | 5 |
| Too full for sound and foam, | |
| When that which drew from out the boundless deep | |
| Turns again home. | |
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| Twilight and evening bell, | |
| And after that the dark! | 10 |
| And may there be no sadness of farewell, | |
| When I embark; | |
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| For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place | |
| The flood may bear me far, | |
| I hope to see my Pilot face to face | 15 |
| When I have crossed the bar. | | | | |
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