Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket, Peeps, noddies, oldsquaws, or quail, To Musketaquid what from Nantasket, What token of greeting & hail? Can we tie up & send you our thunder, -- Pulse-beat of the sea on the shore? Or our Rainbow, the daughter of Wonder, Our rock Massasoit's palace-door. White pebbles from Nantasket beach, Whereon to write the maiden's name; Shells, sea-eggs, sea flowers, could they teach Thee the fair haunts from whence they came! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DIVIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON JENNY WI' THE AIRN TEETH by ALEXANDER ANDERSON IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE BURIED FLOWER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION by APHRA BEHN FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT by THOMAS CAREW |