Nature

Look now! The crested waters sleep

by Theodore Harding Rand 1835–1900

From Song-Waves (1900)

Nature

Look now! The crested waters sleep;
White stars their emerald twilight keep
Above the tryst of pensile glories
That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

Blossoms the rose red as its name;
The trees aspire to heaven, like flame;
Articulate the gold-eyed songsters;
While angels lean from their place of fame.

O sleep, sleep now, sleep silverly,
Radiant, divine, deep-bosomed sea!
Thy cradle rocks to skyey breathings,
Bright fall Love's shadows on you and me.

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From the sequence Song-Waves (1900)

MLA

Rand, Theodore Harding. “Look now! The crested waters sleep.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rand_th/134/.

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Rand, Theodore Harding. “Look now! The crested waters sleep.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rand_th/134/.

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