Let your anchor go whinnying down: it should strike Deep into some merman's pearl-assaulted skull; Or -- if you like -- A nereid's throat white as death and as beautiful, A nereid's hair streaked weed green, rust gold where pike And inquisitive shark teeth pull. Forget home and the half-friends; forget the soft mouth Syllabling lovely treacheries; forget the hollow words, The dust, the drouth -- Everything! Go with the sulphur wings and the sapphire birds And the cream curves of the great gulls screaming south And the whales in wallowing herds! Forget! Let nothing make you remember; allow No pale intrigue of roseleaf dust, no pressed clover; Let no sound now Haunt your brain with the old crushed cry of the lover; Forget you ever touched a cool skin, a quiet brow -- Let your anchor go over! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOOKER T. WASHINGTON by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER by ALFRED TENNYSON IN THE WATER by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS FROM HIDDEN SOURCE by JEAN ANDERSON |