Beloved sea, fall gently on this land. Sprinkle the bay, reach not the delicate rose That perilously in the granite grows. Deliberate gulls, move through your saraband Upon this summer's wind, and every year. Run, eager boy, with slim oars to your boat. Lie, dreaming girl, the sun upon your throat. Blown bright-frocked women, crowd upon the pier. Gather the uncoined silver from your seine And pass in the lilac evening to your beach, Saying goodnight in your soft plaintive speech, You quiet fishers of the flawless main. Reiterate, O country of my heart Your loveliness long after I depart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: THE CHARGE by ALFRED TENNYSON FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 6 by WALT WHITMAN THE SONG OF THE DIAL by PETER AIREY PERSONALITY by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE SENTRY'S MISTAKE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |