The Mermaid Other Poems PDF Download

Excerpt from The Mermaid and Other Poems The Mermaid Out of the silver sea a woman's form, From crystal depths before the pearl light broke, Or night in travail bore the new-born day, Rose from the boundless deep in beauty clad, From angels or from devils having seized The secret of the skies, the earth, the sea, And underneath the water limitless. Within the confines of her hidden pool She easily with aimless labour darts, Now hiding in some cleft, or diving low To sound the lucid waters, till she creeps With laughter light, and grace of elfin sprite, Up to her couch among the rocks, to sing Her songs, sweet music full of love, or death To those, who listen and obey her call. Grey was the whispering sea, and grey the rocks, And wan was she, the while the moon-kissed rays Were dying, and she grasped their silver strands To weave a coronal, or else to deck Their glistering brightness on her supple limbs; As one by one are loosened, these she seeks To seize, but all are lost within the depths Of brine beneath, yet rise a second time About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.