Sea Lullaby
I don't remember who wrote this one, but I like the flow, the phrasing and the imagery. It is one of the things I've memorized. Granted, memorized is not the same thing as scrutinizing. I must confess I've never really gave this one much thought as to what the poem might mean beyond the surface subject of a drowning. Though the image of drowning can be symbolic of feeling of being overwhelmed.

Sea Lullaby
The old moon is tarnished
with the smoke of the flood
the dead leaves are varnished
with color like blood

A treacherous smiler
with teeth white as milk
a savage beguiler
in sheathings od silk

The sea creeps to pillage
she leaps on her prey
a child of the village 
was murdered today

She came out to meet him 
in smooth golden cloak
she choked him and beat him
to death for a joke

Now in silence she lingers
beside him all night
to wash her long fingers
in silvery light