If the pool were still The reflected world Of tottering houses The falling cities, The quaking mountains Would cohere on the surface And stars invisible To the troubled mind Be seen in water Drawn from the soul's Bottomless well. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE by MARIANNE MOORE STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE ANGLER'S SONG by WILLIAM BASSE THE RETIREMENT; TO MR. IZAAK WALTON by CHARLES COTTON THE LION'S RIDE by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH SOMEBODY'S DARLING by MARIE LA CONTE |