BEHOLD! how weirdly, wonderfully grand The shades and colors of yon sunset sky! Rare isles of light in crimson oceans lie, Whose airy waves seem rippling, bright and bland, Up the soft slopes of many a mystic strand, -- While luminous capes, and mountains towering high In golden pomp and proud regality, O'erlook the frontier of that fairy land, But now, in transformations swift and strange The vision changes! Castles glittering fair, And sapphire battlements of loftiest range Commingle with vast spire and gorgeous dome, Round which the sunset rolls its purpling foam, Girding this transient Venice of the air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOW BAROMETER by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES SECRET LOVE; SONG by JOHN CLARE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 3. IN PORT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A WINTRY LULLABY by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER STANZAS TO M.P. by BERNARD BARTON PSALM 19. THE FIRST SIX VERSES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |