Come down with me to the moon-led sea, Where the long wave ebbs and fills; Are these the tides that follow As the lunar impulse wills? Nay, rather, this is the heart of God, Naked under the sky, And we hear its pulse with wonder -- The shore, and the clouds, and I! Unearthly, awful, uncompelled, Eternity framed in clay, The urge of exhaustless passions, Rocking beneath the gray! Its life is the blood of the universe Through cosmic arteries hurled, With the throb of its giant pulses God feeds the veins of the world! And the lands are wrinkled and gray with time And scored with a thousand scars, But the sea is the soul of the Infinite, Swinging beneath the stars! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COUNTESS LAURA by GEORGE HENRY BOKER DIVINA COMMEDIA (INTRODUCTORY POEMS): 1 by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SUMMER (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE TROUBLED SPIRIT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE CAMPUS IN VACATION by ANNE MILLAY BREMER |