You snatched your garden from out the sea; You fenced in your garden from the wave; But lip to lip, they seem to me, Like lovers that contact crave. The tulips taste the delicate foam; The ocean quivers at perfumes sweet; A crested wave is her sparkling comb; Rose petals are wings for his feet. Sea birds tempted away from the sea, Landward lured o'er your flowers hover, The butterfly and the honey bee, Are lost in mists -- the breakers' cover. The heavens at dawn, sea at sun-setting, Mantle your garden with magic hues, Flame seizing on it, stays forgetting, Till earth locks tight what the heavens lose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COUNT THAT DAY LOST by MARY ANN EVANS THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOOD DAEMON by ROBERT HERRICK THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |