Sea Poppies

Sea Garden (1916)

Amber huskfluted with gold,fruit on the sandmarked with a rich grain,

treasurespilled near the shrub-pinesto bleach on the boulders:

your stalk has caught rootamong wet pebblesand drift flung by the seaand grated shellsand split conch-shells.

Beautiful, wide-spread,fire upon leaf,what meadow yieldsso fragrant a leafas your bright leaf?

from Sea Garden (1916)