we are waiting

“The sense of waiting here strikes strong;

Everyone’s waiting, waiting, it seems to me;

What are you waiting for so long?—

What is to happen?” I said.

from Fragment, by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

“Waiting to …”
“Who is?”
“We are …

 Was that the night- owl's cry?”
“I heard not. But see! the evening star;
And listen!—the ocean's solacing sigh.”
“You mean the surf at the harbour bar?”
“What did you say?”

“Oh, ‘waiting.’”
“‘Waiting?’
Waiting what for?”

from Waiting, by Walter De la Mare (1873–1956)