The poem describes a beautiful sunset over the sea where the sky, water, and clouds are all golden in color. The narrow strip of land is shadowed between the golden sea and sky, making it difficult to distinguish where the earth ends and heaven begins. Rocks in the sea appear as clouds floating in glory, while a boat silently hangs in the radiant flood midway between the golden sea and sky.

1. T he Golden
Sunset
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. The golden sea its mirror spreads

3. Beneath the golden skies,

4. And but a narrow strip between

5. Of land and shadow lies.

6. The cloud-like rocks, the rock-like clouds

7. Dissolved in glory float,

8. And midway of the radiant flood,

9. Hangs silently the boat.

10. The sea is but another sky,

11. The sky a sea as swell,

12. And which is earth and which is heaven,

13. The eye can scarcely tell!

14. Thank You!
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