Poetry, April 17

[jade_sabre]

Oh I am too tired to read this poem properly, but I think I like it, and anyway the author made me think of Willow so I am posting it.  Also I went to see a play entitled Blithe Spirit tonight, and the title of the poem involves the word spirit. SEE HOW I MAKE CONNECTIONS? So today, from Lucy Maud Montgomery:




The Sea Spirit
I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­
Lo! the sea is fair,
Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair;
And the welkin's light shines through
Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue,
And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing,
And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing!

I scowl in sullen guise­
The sea grows dark and dun,
The swift clouds hide the sun
But not the bale-light in my eyes,
And the frightened wind as it flies
Ruffles the billows with stormy wing,
And the sea is a terrible, treacherous thing!

When moonlight glimmers dim
I pass in the path of the mist,
Like a pale spirit by spirits kissed.
At dawn I chant my own weird hymn,
And I dabble my hair in the sunset's rim,
And I call to the dwellers along the shore
With a voice of gramarye evermore.

And if one for love of me
Gives to my call an ear,
I will woo him and hold him dear,
And teach him the way of the sea,
And my glamor shall ever over him be;
Though he wander afar in the cities of men
He will come at last to my arms again.

Comments

[beautyinsleep.livejournal.com]

Aww, Anne of Green Gables author! I didn't know she wrote poetry. It's a pretty poem. I was going to say that I like the first and last stanzas, but after a couple of reads, I also like parts of the middle two too. :)

This is related to your previous post, but I'm curious...what's your take on the "I don't want to be friends" phrase?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

yay! I am glad you like.

also, sex. Definitely just sex.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Yay L. M. Montgomery!