William Carlos Williams
Flowers by the Sea
When over the flowery, sharp pasture's
edge, unseen, the salt ocean
lifts its form--chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
but color and the movement--or the shape
perhaps--of restlessness, whereas
the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, New Directions
Publishing, 1938.