BEAUTIFUL bronze boy, wing Of the golden age in flower With the bloom of an Asian spring, -- Sheathless beauty and power; Life in its delicate fuse Of first thought, first desire, -- Of Meleager's muse The radiance and the fire! Thy loveliness disdained A rude barbarian fate; No Christian touch profaned Thy form inviolate; But plunged in ocean-peace The blue waves did thee cover; A score of centuries Thou hadst the sea for lover. Late thence emerging now Into the gray light wan, Thou bringest the youthful brow The world's dawn rests upon. Strange is the sight, forlorn The heart with the sense thereof, Beautiful boy, reborn Of the waves for our worship and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KING DAVID by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE DREAM by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DESCRIPTION OF SPRING by HENRY HOWARD SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI UNDERSTANDING by NIXON WATERMAN THE WATER-SPRINGS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |