BEAUTIFUL bronze boy, wing Of the golden age in flower With the bloom of an Asian spring, -- Sheathless beauty and power; Life in its delicate fuse Of first thought, first desire, -- Of Meleager's muse The radiance and the fire! Thy loveliness disdained A rude barbarian fate; No Christian touch profaned Thy form inviolate; But plunged in ocean-peace The blue waves did thee cover; A score of centuries Thou hadst the sea for lover. Late thence emerging now Into the gray light wan, Thou bringest the youthful brow The world's dawn rests upon. Strange is the sight, forlorn The heart with the sense thereof, Beautiful boy, reborn Of the waves for our worship and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND by ANNE BRADSTREET SONNET: 27 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG by ALEXANDER POPE THE MORAL FABLES: THE TALE OF THE TWO MICE by AESOP SATIRE: 6 by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS |