A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 9

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The Sea of Glass Ezra Pound, 1885 – 1972

I looked and saw a sea
roofed over with rainbows,
In the midst of each
two lovers met and departed;
Then the sky was full of faces
with gold glories behind them.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 16, 2015, by the Academy of American Poets.