Goldbrown upon the sated flood
The rockvine clusters lift and sway;
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.
A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.
Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Your clustered fruits to love’s full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude!
(James Joyce)
More Poetry from James Joyce:
- I Hear an Army (James Joyce Poems)
- Dear Heart (James Joyce Poems)
- When the Star Goes Forth in Heaven (James Joyce Poems)
- Bid Adieu (James Joyce Poems)
- Tutto (James Joyce Poems)
- Bahnhofstras (James Joyce Poems)