Beautiful body made of ivory, Beautiful body made of ivory and roses, Beautiful body made of gold and beaten silver, Garlanded with ivy, -- Colder than starlight you stand and wait me; Colder than starlight on the snow of mountains; Whiter than starlight on the snow of oceans You wait and are silent. Beautiful dreamer of dreams; Beautiful dreamer of cold-hearted music; Roseate dreamer of involuted music, Chords of tense silver; Clearly you sound to me in the night time, Solemnly, like a rich wind moving, You move in my heart's enchanted forests, You sigh and are restless. Beautiful dream of the dreamer, Rare dream profoundly and curiously unfolding, -- Unfolding like a lotus in waves of cool fragrance, Unfolding in slow measure, You are like moonlight prodigally unfolding; You are like the universe of stars unfolding, Unfolding in slow clouds of sound and silence, Grave and immortal. Beautiful body made of roses; Beautiful body made of roses and sea-waves; Beautiful body with eyes of cold starlight, Slow-moving dreamer; Beautiful woman made of love, White body made of dreamdust and stardust, Silently and sedately you enter me, -- Quietly you possess me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLACKBIRD by WILLIAM BARNES LINES TO CASTE by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE CORYDON by LUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE EXTEMPORE VERSES ON A TRIAL OF SKILL BETWEEN MSSRS. FIGG AND SUTTON by JOHN BYROM HAYING, VERMONT AND GINGER DRINK COORDINATED by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |