OUT of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping, Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping To sight, revealing a secret, numberless secrets keeping. Sometimes the darkness trapped within a wheel Runs into speed like a dream, the blue of the steel Showing the rocking darkness now a-reel. And out of the invisible, streams of bright blue drops Rain from the showery heavens, and bright blue crops Surge from the under-dark to their ladder-tops. And all the manifold blue and joyous eyes, The rainbow arching over in the skies, New sparks of wonder opening in surprise. All these pure things come foam and spray of the sea Of Darkness abundant, which shaken mysteriously, Breaks into dazzle of living, as dolphins that leap from the sea Of midnight shake it to fire, so the secret of death we see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTLEY: MUSIC by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT by THOMAS HARDY A LONDON FETE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1885 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 98 by PHILIP SIDNEY PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 29. AL-HAKIM by EDWIN ARNOLD |