ROSE Castles Those bustles Beneath parasols seen! Fat blondine pearls Rondine curls Seem. Bannerols sheen The brave tartan Waves' Spartan Domes -- (Crystal Palaces) Where like fallacies Die the calices Of the water-flowers green. Said the Dean To the Queen, On the tartan wave seen: "Each chilly White lily Has her own crinoline, And the seraphs recline On divans divine In a smooth seventh heaven of polished pitch-pine." Castellated, Related To castles the waves lean Balmoral-like; They quarrel, strike (As round as a rondine) With sharp towers The water-flowers And, floating between, Each chatelaine In the battle slain -- Laid low by the Ondine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE POET AND THE BABY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY HENDECASYLLABICS by ALFRED TENNYSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM by ALFRED TENNYSON TO FOREIGN LANDS by WALT WHITMAN |