The swan existing Is like a song with an accompaniment Imaginary. Across the grassy lake, Across the lake to the shadow of the willows, It is accompanied by an image, -- as by Debussy's "Reflets dans l'eau". The swan that is Reflects Upon the solitary water -- breast to breast With the duplicity: "The other one!" And breast to breast it is confused. O visionary wedding! O stateliness of the procession! It is accompanied by the image of itself Alone. At night The lake is a wide silence, Without imagination. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONTRACT by EMILY DICKINSON THE HOUSE ON THE HILL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON HYMN OF THE WEST by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY THE SORROW OF LOVE (1) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SONNET by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: CUPID TO CHLOE WEEPING; A SONNET by PHILIP AYRES |