Turn on your side and bear the day to me
Beloved, sceptre-struck, immured
In the glass wall of sleep. Slowly
Uncloud the borealis of your eye
And show your iceberg secrets, your midnight prizes
To the green-eyed world and to me. Sin
Coils upward into thin air when you awaken
And again morning announces amnesty over
The serpent-kingdomed bed. Your mother
Watched with as dove an eye the unforgivable night
Sigh backward into innocence when you
Set a bright monument in her amorous sea.
Look down, Undine, on the trident that struck
Sons from the rock of vanity. Turn in the world
Sceptre-struck, spellbound, beloved,
Turn in the world and bear the day to me.
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Comments1WOW, THIS POEM REALLY MOVED ME! THE IMAGERY FELT SO VIVID AND BEAUTIFUL, THE WAY IT TALKS ABOUT LOVE AND MORNING HOURS IS JUST BREATHTAKING. I'M WONDERING HOW OTHER READERS INTERPRET THE SYMBOLISMS USED IN THIS PIECE? FEELS LIKE THERE'S A LOT TO UNTANGLE HERE, AND I'D LOVE TO HEAR OTHERS' THOUGHTS. SUCH A GREAT POEM TO DISCOVER!