A SILVER sea beneath the stars -- We paid to love his mystic rites, And from thy lips I kissed the scars Of fiercer joys and stranger nights. What redder lips, what mouth of fate, Till Buddha noddeth near the goal, Shall, stronger still, obliterate My one night's madness from thy soul? I brand thee through eternity, Upon thy blood I set my seal, And boy and girl and change and sea Cannot wipe out my mark or heal. While the great life-snake sheds its coat, I must rehearse my tragic part, To kiss the love-wounds from thy throat, And burn the iron in thy heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FISH-LEAP FALL by ROBERT FROST HOW THEY GO ON by JAMES GALVIN SMALL COUNTRIES by JAMES GALVIN TO WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON by EMMA LAZARUS THE MARRIAGE (1) by TIMOTHY LIU |