SHADOWED by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Look on wine-purple seas, whitened afar With marble foam, where the dim islands are. We sit forgetting. For the great pines rise Above dark cypress to the dim white skies So clear and black and still-to one great star. The marble dryads and the veined white jar Gleam from the grove. Glimmering, the white owl flies In the dark shade…. If ever life was harsh Here we forget-or ever friends turned foes. The sea cliffs beetle down above the marsh And through sea-holly the black panther goes. And in the shadows of this secret place Your kind, dear eyes shine in your dear, dear face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 71 by OMAR KHAYYAM THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 101. THE ONE HOPE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) by ANNE SPENCER LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE by LUCY A. K. ADEE ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 10. TO THOMAS EDWARDS, ON ... POPE'S WORKS by MARK AKENSIDE GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM JOURNEY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A THOUGHT FOR A LONELY DEATH-BED by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |