Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother, And drove her away from home In the dark of the night she crept to the town And under a doorway she laid her down, The little blue child in the foam-fringed gown. And never a sister and never a brother To hear her call, to answer her cry. Her face shone out from her hair's warm smother Like a moonkin up in the sky. She sold her corals; she sold her foam; Her rainbow heart like a singing shell Broke in her body: she crept back home. Peace, go back to the world, my daughter, Daughter, go back to the darkling land; There is nothing here but sad sea water, And a handful of sifting sand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: CHORUS by AESCHYLUS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES EPIGRAM by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS BENNINGTON by WILLIAM HENRY BABCOCK WHAT IS THE SPIRIT? by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |