PHOEBUS WHAT voice is this that wails above the deep? ALCYONE A wife's, that mourns her fate and loveless days. PHOEBUS What love lies buried in these waterways? ALCYONE A husband's, hurried to eternal sleep. PHOEBUS Cease, O beloved, cease to wail and weep. ALCYONE Wherefore? PHOEBUS The waters in a fiery blaze Proclaim the godhead of my healing rays. ALCYONE No god can sow where fate hath stood to reap. PHOEBUS Hold, wringing hands! cease, piteous tears, to fall! ALCYONE But grief must rain and glut the passionate sea. PHOEBUS Thou shalt forget this ocean and thy wrong, And I will bless the dead, though past recall. ALCYONE What canst thou give to me or him in me? PHOEBUS A name in story and a light in song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORNING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE SOUTH WIND by SIEGFRIED SASSOON ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 74 by PHILIP SIDNEY THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 17 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT TO THE DECEASED AUTHOR, UPON THE PROMISCUOUS PRINTING OF HIS POEMS by THOMAS BROWNE |