I tossed a rose into the sea, A blooming fair rose into the green sea. Because the sun shone, sun shone bright, After it leaped the light, With hundred tremulous toes in glee. When the first wave came, Then my rose, my rose began to drown. When the second wave raised it on shoulders tame, The light, the light at her feet sank down. The third snatched it up and then the light, As if in defence, leaped high tremblingly. But a hundred leaping flower petals Were rocking red, red, red round me, And my boat danced about And my shadow like a spright On the foam, and the green sea, the sea-- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FELICIA HEMANS by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON ARNOLD [VON] WINKELRIED by JAMES MONTGOMERY ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON by MATTHEW PRIOR THE MISTRESS; A SONG by JOHN WILMOT TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: TOWERS by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER THE SECOND DAYES LAMENTATION OF THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD by RICHARD BARNFIELD |