I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold
How the voluminous billows roll and run,
Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun
Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled,
And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold
All its loose-flowing garments into one,
Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun
Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold.
So in majestic cadence rise and fall
The mighty undulations of thy song,
O sightless bard, England's Maeonides!
And ever and anon, high over all
Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong,
Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
Masque of Pandora and Other Poems 1875
- The Masque of Pandora - I. The Workshop of Hephaestus
- The Masque of Pandora - II. Olympus
- The Masque of Pandora - III. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus
- The Masque of Pandora - IV. The Air
- The Masque of Pandora - V. The House of Epimetheus
- The Masque of Pandora - VI. In the Garden
- The Masque of Pandora - VII. The House of Epimetheus
- The Masque of Pandora - VIII. In the Garden
- The Hanging of the Crane
- Morituri Salutamus
A Book of Sonnets
- Three Friends of Mine
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Keats
- The Galaxy
- The Sound of the Sea
- A Summer Day by the Sea
- The Tides
- A Shadow
- A Nameless Grave
- Sleep
- The Old Bridge at Florence
- Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze
Birds of Passage. Flight the Fourth