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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN ARCADIE, by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON First Line: The sea is green, the sea is grey Last Line: And thou beside me in the dusk. Alternate Author Name(s): Merrill, Helen M. Subject(s): Arcadians; Arcadia | |||
THE sea is green, the sea is grey, The tide winds blow, and shallows chime; Where earth is rife with bloom of May The throstle sings of lovers' time, Of violet stars in lovers' clime. Love fares to-day by land and sea, On the horizon's utmost hill The mystic blue-flower beckons still Beneath the stars of Arcadie. Love fares to-day, and deftly builds To melodies of wind and leaves; Castles in Spain yet brightly gilds, And song of star and woodbird weaves, And flowers, and pearl and purple eves. With roofs of ever-changing skies And fretted walls with time begun, Its portals open to the sun, On dream-held hills a castle lies. No proud armorial bearings now, But God's white seal on every leaf; No sapphire gleaming on my brow, Deep in my heart a dear belief; No grey unrest, no pain, no grief. By day a forest green and fair, Where veeries sing in secret bowers And lindens blow and little flowers, And bluebirds cleave the shining air. By night a quiet wayside grove Where Aldebaran lights the gloom, And silent breezes idly rove Above a shadow-painted room Builded of many a bough and bloom- A wafted air of myrrh and musk, The music of slow falling streams, A whitethroat singing in its dreams, And thou beside me in the dusk. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ARCADIE by JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS DE HISTRICE. EX CLAUDIANO by CLAUDIAN LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS by HILDA DOOLITTLE THE LOST LAND by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON AND I TOO IN ARCADIA; SUGGESTED BY A CELEBRATED PICTURE OF POUSSIN by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE SHIPS OF ARCADY by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE IN ARCADIA by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE SECRET OF ARCADY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON PAN IN WINTER by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER A HILL SONG by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON |
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