BENEATH thy spell, O radiant summer sea, -- Lulled by thy voice, rocked on thy shining breast, Fanned by thy soft breath, by thy touch caressed, -- Let all thy treacheries forgotten be. Let me still dream the ships I gave to thee All golden-freighted in fair harbors rest; Let me believe each sparkling wave's white crest Bears from thy depths my loved and lost to me. Let me not heed thy wrecks, nor count thy slain. As o'er-fond lovers for love's sake forget Their dearest wrongs, so I, with eyes still wet With thy salt tears, with heart still wrung with pain, Back to thy fierce, sweet beauty turn again, And though thou wreck me, will I love thee yet! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 3. WASHINGTON, D.C. by CLARENCE MAJOR LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT by EDWIN MARKHAM SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 41 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING IN THE WILDERNESS by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES TO THE SOUR READER by ROBERT HERRICK ASTRONOMY by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN MARE LIBERUM by HENRY VAN DYKE A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |