GAINST the mast reclining, and high on the lofty deck Stood I and heard I the song of the bird. Like black-green steeds, with silvery manes, The white and curling billows were springing; Like flocks of swans were sailing past us, With glittering sails, the men of Heligoland, The nomads bold of the Baltic. Over my head, in the azure eterne, Snowy clouds were fluttering on, While sparkled the sun everlasting, The rose of the heavens, the fiery-blooming one, Who joyfully mirror'd himself in the ocean; And heaven and ocean and with them my heart In echo resounded. She loves him! She loves him! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 5 by EZRA POUND THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE IN THE ROOM by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED by WALT WHITMAN INDIGNATION; AN ODE by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |