Let your anchor go whinnying down: it should strike Deep into some merman's pearl-assaulted skull; Or -- if you like -- A nereid's throat white as death and as beautiful, A nereid's hair streaked weed green, rust gold where pike And inquisitive shark teeth pull. Forget home and the half-friends; forget the soft mouth Syllabling lovely treacheries; forget the hollow words, The dust, the drouth -- Everything! Go with the sulphur wings and the sapphire birds And the cream curves of the great gulls screaming south And the whales in wallowing herds! Forget! Let nothing make you remember; allow No pale intrigue of roseleaf dust, no pressed clover; Let no sound now Haunt your brain with the old crushed cry of the lover; Forget you ever touched a cool skin, a quiet brow -- Let your anchor go over! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE KNIGHTS: THE POET AND HIS RIVALS by ARISTOPHANES TRANSFIGURATION by MARGIE B. BOSWELL NORTH WIND, SOUTH WIND by MARY BISHOP BULLARD TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A NEW LIFE by EDWARD CARPENTER SEARCHLIGHT by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK THE LILY AND THE ROSE by WILLIAM COWPER |