The sea falls all night on the yellow sand, The green waves foam and thrust and slide, The long green waves fall on the yellow sand, All night long they fall, The green waves fall and drag at the yellow pebbles, The shingle roars in the sliding surf, Wind screams over the long volutes of foam, All night long they whirl, They charge the sand and seethe and slide in laughter, Swiftly withdraw and murmur and rise, They charge the sand with rippling, glittering edges, All night long they charge, Immortally flinging their long green bodies to death, Immortally baffled, withdrawing, crying, Rallying, hurrying, clamoring, sobbing for rest, Immortally slaying, immortally dying. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY [OR, DAFFYDOWNDILLY] by MOTHER GOOSE BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE by WALT WHITMAN AMPHIPOLIS by ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUARTA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A SERENADE AT THE VILLA by ROBERT BROWNING THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SECOND SQUIRE (2) by THOMAS CAMPION THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE FIRST INVOCATION IN A FULL SONG by THOMAS CAMPION |