Malay Song

The Stars await, serene and white,

The unarisen moon;

Oh, come and stay with me to-night,

Beside the salt Lagoon!

My hut is small, but as you lie,

You see the lighted shore,

And hear the rippling water sigh

Beneath the pile-raised floor.

No gift have I of jewels or flowers,

My room is poor and bare:

But all the silver sea is ours,

And all the scented air

Blown from the mainland, where there grows

Th’ “Intriguer of the Night,”

The flower that you have named Tube rose,

Sweet scented, slim, and white.

The flower that, when the air is still

And no land breezes blow,

From its pale petals can distil

A phosphorescent glow.

I see your ship at anchor ride;

Her “captive lightning” shine.

Before she takes to-morrow’s tide,

Let this one night be mine!

Though in the language of your land

My words are poor and few,

Oh, read my eyes, and understand,

I give my youth to you!

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Poems in English 

• Dancing by Robert Hass by Poetry In English
• Children Are Like Water by Robert Lloyd Jaffe by Poetry In English
• Cascade by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• Between The Wars by Robert Hass by Poetry In English
• What We Leave Behind by Robert Saltzman by Poetry In English
• Water by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• The Wound by Robert McNamara by Poetry In English
• The Withdrawal by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• The Ruins Of Time by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell by Poetry In English
• Promise Me Rain Retold by Roberto Cocina by Poetry In English
• San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English
• True Love by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English
• Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English
• Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English
• Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English
• A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren by Poetry In English

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

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