Waiting
Waiting - meaning Summary
Choosing Rest Before Voyage
The speaker pauses work to let his boat lie idle and relish a deliberate rest. He describes choosing clouds, listening to wind, and feeling the world’s influence on his brow as pleasures earned after hard days. Yet the rest is temporary: dawn will revive the boat’s engine and a forward-moving voyage awaits. The closing lines frame departure as a vigorous, collective quest toward an unknown shore, full of energy and resolve.
Read Complete AnalysesToday I will let the old boat stand Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in To the pulse of a far, deep-steady sway. And I will rest and dream and sit on the deck Watching the world go by And take my pay for many hard days gone I remember. I will choose what clouds I like In the great white fleets that wander the blue As I lie on my back or loaf at the rail. And I will listen as the veering winds kiss me and fold me And put on my brow the touch of the world's great will. Daybreak will hear the heart of the boat beat, Engine throb and piston play In the quiver and leap at call of life. To-morrow we move in the gaps and heights On changing floors of unlevel seas And no man shall stop us and no man follow For ours is the quest of an unknown shore And we are husky and lusty and shouting-gay.
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