The crew of the great warship rejoiced as she passed within hail of the tower, labouring under her heavy canvas, and making a foaming way through the calm and mighty waters. Many a despairing heart has been cheered, and many a home-sick soul made joyous, as the little red speck appeared in the horizon, and told it that home was near, and the dangers of the voyage almost over. It bears a red light, revolving at intervals of thirty-five seconds. It stands on a wild and rocky coast, and has been shaken by many a storm. The rocks and sea-sand with the kiss of peace. Year after year, through all the silent nightīurns on for evermore that quenchless flame,
~Rowland Brown, "The Lighthouse," Songs of Early Spring, with Lays of Later Life, 1872 L., "The Lighthouse," The Story of My Love, and Other Poems, 1874 Ballantyne, The Lighthouse: Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man and the Sea, 1865 The two great fog-bells of the lighthouse were therefore set agoing, and they rang out their slow deep-toned peal all that day and all that night. Presently a light breeze sprang up, rolling the fog before it, and then dying away, leaving the lighthouse enshrouded. She is like a revolving light-house - pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy. ~Cynthia Ellingsen, The Lighthouse Keeper, 2017 Every time you see it, you won't have to be afraid. ~Richard Sheldon Chadwick, "Building the Lighthouse," c. 1856 ~Charles Simic, "Solving the Riddle," Selected Poems, 1963–1983: Revised and Expanded, 1990 ~Charles Simic, "Solving the Riddle," Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, 1974 ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Lighthouse," The Seaside and the Fireside, 1850 With strange, unearthly splendour in its glare! Through the deep purple of the twilight air,īeams forth the sudden radiance of its light ~Japanese proverb, quoted in J. Long, Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths, 1881Īnd as the evening darkens, lo! how bright, ~Anne Lamott, "The Last Class," Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994Īt the foot of the lighthouse it is dark. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining. ~Thomas Moore, "The Light House," c. 1811 One moment I gaz’d from the hill’s gentle slope,Īnd tho’t that the Light-house look’d lovely as Hope, The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. The way the beams lit up with a simple, rhythmic flash or an arc of light that swept across the water like a pair of arms. I loved the unique structures, all alone on the water. I searched for lighthouses everywhere we went. ~James Michael Pratt, The Lighthouse Keeper, 2000 Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all. William, we have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. ~John William Smith, "The Lighthouse," Terrors of Imagination, and Other Poems, 1814
Thy blissful light can cheer the dismal gloom, These foaming anger, those impelling rage When winds and waves a mutual contest wage, ~Anne Stevenson, "North Sea off Carnoustie," Enough of Green, 1977 But to anyone returning from the planet ocean,
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