When over the flowery, sharp pasture's <br />edge, unseen, the salt ocean <br /> <br />lifts its form-chicory and daisies <br />tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone <br /> <br />but color and the movement-or the shape <br />perhaps-of restlessness, whereas <br /> <br />the sea is circled and sways <br />peacefully upon its plantlike stem<br /><br />William Carlos Williams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flowers-by-the-sea/