I Seek Not Across The Sea Poem by Annie Cordelia Adams

Across the Sea,
it is not that my love will come
Though traveling ships abroad
my Love is not there from

For elven ships
for all their glory and whiteness
blinding pure, it is not yet so
that my Love is coming to caress

my sight seeks not to find it
my eyes look not to a coming
only my might seeks all to love
where loving never sought sixteen

my love is not across the Sea
so ever gallantly seeking me
across the Sea is eternity
so there I look to all the Sea

the waves look to me to sail
would that I could, and thus sail
but eternity is forever, and thus
I have time before the Sea I sail