Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: V. The HomeA Petition to Time
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)T
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,—as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream.
Humble voyagers are We,
Husband, wife, and children three—
(One is lost,—an angel, fled
To the azure overhead.)
We ’ve not proud nor soaring wings:
Our ambition, our content,
Lies in simple things.
Humble voyagers are we,
O’er Life’s dim, unsounded sea,
Seeking only some calm clime;—
Touch us gently, gentle Time!