You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work! You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread, Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations, What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's? What central heart -- and you the pulse -- vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all? What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity, Holding the universe with all its parts as one -- as sailing in a ship? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by MATTHEW ARNOLD EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) FOR THE BAPTIST by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN THE RIGHT TO DIE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE VANISHING RED by ROBERT FROST THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 5; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |