In the brown water, Thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine, Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds, A pike dozed. Lost among the shadows of stems He lay unnoticed. Suddenly he flicked his tail, And a green-and-copper brightness Ran under the water. Out from under the reeds Came the olive-green light, And orange flashed up Through the sun-thickened water. So the fish passed across the pool, Green and copper, A darkness and a gleam, And the blurred reflections of the willows on the opposite bank Received it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOO NOT THE WORLD by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II QUATRAIN: HERRICK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE VIOLIN'S ENCHANTRESS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE by BLISS CARMAN A DIALOGUE by ELIZABETH CARTER CARMINA, 70: FEMALE INCONSTANCY by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS |