You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work! You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread, Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations, What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's? What central heart -- and you the pulse -- vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all? What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity, Holding the universe with all its parts as one -- as sailing in a ship? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: CUPID AND VENUS by MARK ALEXANDER BOYD WAR IS KIND: 21 by STEPHEN CRANE THE IMAGE IN LAVA by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS ECHO AND THE FERRY by JEAN INGELOW PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 3 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE SHAVEN BEAUTY by YUSUF IBN HARUN AL-RAMADI |