SHADOWED by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Look on wine-purple seas, whitened afar With marble foam, where the dim islands are. We sit forgetting. For the great pines rise Above dark cypress to the dim white skies So clear and black and still-to one great star. The marble dryads and the veined white jar Gleam from the grove. Glimmering, the white owl flies In the dark shade…. If ever life was harsh Here we forget-or ever friends turned foes. The sea cliffs beetle down above the marsh And through sea-holly the black panther goes. And in the shadows of this secret place Your kind, dear eyes shine in your dear, dear face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOMECOMING by THOMAS HARDY RECESSIONAL (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES TO --, WITH ARTHUR AND ALBINA by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 34 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ACROSS THE CITY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |