When the Taihaitian princess Heard that he had decided, She rushed out into the sunlight and swarmed up a cocoanut palm tree, But he returned to this island And wrote ninety Petrarchan sonnets. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO BEACHEY, 1912 by CARL SANDBURG SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION] by JEAN INGELOW DREAMS OLD AND NASCENT: NASCENT by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE MODERN LOVE: 50 by GEORGE MEREDITH THE LIGHT THAT LIES by THOMAS MOORE THE LOTOS-EATERS by ALFRED TENNYSON THE DAUGHTERS OF ATLAS by AESCHYLUS |