Harken! The Drum-beat of the Sea, Sea-Song and Love-Song The Sea-Lover is singing: My Love is beautiful As sea flowers are beautiful; As sea shells are beautiful; As the moon on the Sea is beautiful; As the Being is beautiful My Love is beautiful, Leda with the swift feet, Leda, daughter of Ba-tiel. I come as the Sea comes Surging against the shore, Resounding through the hills And the hills sounding back; Great winds bear me in To my Love with the swift feet, My love with the two high breasts, I watched as a child playing Where the brook meets the neap tide; Little daughter of Ba-tiel Molding images of birds, beasts and fishes. Long have I waited; Now I come thundering Down the white beaches, Surging in from the Sea, Flowing in from the Sea To my Love, a Rainbow Mist about me. I am the son of The-Old-Man-Of-The-Sea. I am the son of my mother, Storm-Dancer. My Love with the swift feet Bid farewell to thy mother, Flower-Of-The-Forest; Bid farewell to thy father, Ba-tiel. Look on me here, me your own As I look on you, my own; We two shall disappear into the Sea And never again Appear on land. Harken! the Drum-beat of the Sea, Sea-Song and Love-Song, The Sea-Lover is singing: My Love is a Rainbow. My love is the Dawn. O Sea-Song! O Love-Song! O Drum-beat of the Sea! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENCOURAGED by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER by WALTER HARTE NATURAL HISTORY by MOTHER GOOSE THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL: PREFACE by WILLIAM BLAKE MEN OF HARLAN by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY ADDRESS TO BEELZEBUB by ROBERT BURNS FAREWELL TO ELIZA by ROBERT BURNS EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN by ROBERT BURNS |