Wind-flicked and ruddy her young body glowed In sunny shallows, splashing them to spray: But when on rippled silver sand she lay, And over her the little green waves flowed, Coldly translucent and moon-coloured showed Her frail young beauty, as if rapt away From all the light and laughter of the day To some twilit, forlorn sea-god's abode. Again into the sun with happy cry She leapt alive and sparkling from the sea, Sprinkling white spray against the hot blue sky, A laughing girl ... and yet, I see her lie Under a deeper tide eternally In cold moon-coloured immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MR. HOUSMAN'S MESSAGE by EZRA POUND THE IDAHO EGG WOMAN by KAREN SWENSON THE QUAKER WIDOW by BAYARD TAYLOR IN PRAISE OF A COUNTRY LIFE by PHILIP AYRES ON PLOUGHING by EVELYN D. BANGAY AFFINITIES by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |