Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VARIATIONS: 9, by CONRAD AIKEN


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First Line: Moonlight, and shadows of leaves
Last Line: Fleeing.
Subject(s): Love


Moonlight, and shadows of leaves
On the white wall above me --
The shadows gallop and swirl without sound.
Blue moonlight, brief shadows of leaves,
And once more I see you,
Saying aloud, like a dreamer, "You love me,
You love me!"

Moonlight . . . down there in the garden
I know, without seeing,
The somnolent fountain is filled with blue fire.
I close my eyes, I pursue you
Through dream's fainter moonlight,
Ghostlike, with shadows of dead leaves, silently
Fleeing.





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