In the Harbour: Four by the Clock
In the Harbour: Four by the Clock - meaning Summary
Night Yields to Coming Dawn
The speaker stands at a harbor in the deep pre-dawn, watching a sleeping world move inexorably toward morning. While cities and ships advance into the coming day, only a lone lamp on an anchored boat and the sea’reathing break the silence. The poem contrasts stillness and motion, solitude and the larger, indifferent progress of life, suggesting quiet anticipation and a small, human witness to inevitable change.
Read Complete AnalysesFour by the clock! and yet not day; But the great world rolls and wheels away, With its cities on land, and its ships at sea, Into the dawn that is to be! Only the lamp in the anchored bark Sends its glimmer across the dark, And the heavy breathing of the sea Is the only sound that comes to me.
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