BESIDE the smooth black lacquer sea You and I move aimlessly. The grass is springing pale, alone, Tuneless as a quartertone. . . . Remote your face seems, far away Beneath the ghostly water, Day, That laps across you, rustling loud -- Until you seem a muslined cloud Beneath your fluted hat's ghost-flowers -- The little dog that runs and cowers Black as Beelzebub, now tries To catch the white lace butterflies. . . . But we are mute and move again Across the wide and endless plain, Vague as the little nachreous breeze That plays with gilt rococo seas. We are two ghosts to-day -- each ghost For ever wandering and lost; No yesterday and no to-morrow Know we -- neither joy nor sorrow, For this is the hour when like a swan The silence floats, so still and wan, That bird-songs, silver masks to hide Strange faces, now all sounds have died, Find but one curdled sheepskin flower Embodied in this ghostly hour. . . . | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LITTLE CROSS by EDITH AGNEW A DEDICATION TO ATHENE by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR by RICHARD BLACKMORE NIGHT ON OUR LIVES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT CLASS POEM by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE A WISH by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN THE DRAWING ROOMS by EDWARD CARPENTER |