Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DROWNED IN THE TROPICS; THE SEA FAIRIES' ANSWER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Our spells shall Last Line: And floats from light to light, and cannot die. Subject(s): Drowning | ||||||||
Our spells shall keep her floating, yet unchanged; The nautilus shall push his purple sail Across her happy shadow; in the gale The storm-blown land-bird, which too far hath ranged, Shall trust her look, and perch, and close his eye: Around her shall the graceful proas move, And fling their garland gifts of awe and love; And, when the tropic midnight veils the sky, On fair phosphoric seas thy child shall rest, And morn shall find her, when the day comes back, Laid, as in Heaven's own river, in the track Of sunrise o'er the waters - to suggest In symbol, that her soul is pure and blest, And floats from light to light, and cannot die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE REVELATION 20:11-15 by NORMAN DUBIE THE DUN COW AND THE HAG by NORMAN DUBIE FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL by JAMES GALVIN TO W.P.: 1 by GEORGE SANTAYANA DROWNING ON THE PAMET RIVER by GERALD STERN AGAIN I FIND YOU by RUTH STONE HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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