Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER NIGHT PIECE, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garden is steeped in moonlight Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening | ||||||||
The garden is steeped in moonlight, Full to its high edges with brimming silver, And the fish-ponds brim and darken And run in little serpent lights soon extinguished. Lily-pads lie upon the surface, beautiful as the tarnishings on frail old silver, And the Harvest moon droops heavily out of the sky, A ripe, white melon, intensely, magnificently, shining. Your window is orange in the moonlight, It glows like a lamp behind the branches of the old wistaria, It burns like a lamp before a shrine, The small, intimate, familiar shrine Placed reverently among the bricks Of a much-loved garden wall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON |
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