You snatched your garden from out the sea; You fenced in your garden from the wave; But lip to lip, they seem to me, Like lovers that contact crave. The tulips taste the delicate foam; The ocean quivers at perfumes sweet; A crested wave is her sparkling comb; Rose petals are wings for his feet. Sea birds tempted away from the sea, Landward lured o'er your flowers hover, The butterfly and the honey bee, Are lost in mists -- the breakers' cover. The heavens at dawn, sea at sun-setting, Mantle your garden with magic hues, Flame seizing on it, stays forgetting, Till earth locks tight what the heavens lose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 8 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): SALAMIS - MESSENGER by AESCHYLUS PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND by ALDFRITH LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE DEAD LEAF by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYMEN AND CUPID - MARRIAGE AND LOVE by APHRA BEHN |