IN days to come I shall remember these— The look of water ... blue ... beyond the trees ... A green lawn running down to meet the beach, Yet holding its sweet softness out of reach Of hungering waves that thunder for a kiss— Too woman-timid to accede to bliss! I shall remember screaming gulls that flew Between the water's and the sky's bright blue ... Boats that strained at their moorings in the bay, Like slim race horses, waiting racing day. ... The other shore—sometimes, so close at hand; At others, far as the—Enchanted Land. I shall recall the water's woman ways ... How frankly at the sun it smiled, some days; And then—as though regretting it had smiled— As rough and surly as a peevish child ... Again—hiding from him in coquetry, Wrapped in a soft gray veil of mystery! I shall recall the soft, sweet look of Dawn, Reflected in the bay when Night is gone. ... How the smooth water mirrored sunset skies, And on the blue, moonless nights, star-fireflies. ... And how it shivered at the young moon's kiss— In days to come I shall remember this! Now I shall lose them all—tall trees ... green lawn ... Blue water ... sunset skies ... young moon ... and dawn! I shall go back to city walls ... and men— But they can never prison me again. ... I can escape! Ah, yes, I have the keys To set me free—I have these memories! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS by GEORGE SANTAYANA TO DANTE by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI BRIDAL SONG by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) INVOCATION [TO LOVE] by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN HENRY PURCELL by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS SOMETHING BEYOND by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON SONG, WRITTEN AT SEA, IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665 ... by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON by THOMAS TICKELL |