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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree Last Line: And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Supernatural; Ocean | |||
HER lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree, While flashing fingers weave the sweet-strung spell Between its chords; and as the wild notes swell, The sea-bird for those branches leaves the sea. But to what sound her listening ear stoops she? What netherworld gulf-whispers doth she hear, In answering echoes from what planisphere, Along the wind, along the estuary? She sinks into her spell: and when full soon Her lips move and she soars into her song, What creatures of the midmost main shall throng In furrowed surf-clouds to the summoning rune: Till he, the fated mariner, hears her cry, And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A LITTLE WHILE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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