Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOONBLIND, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS


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MOONBLIND, by                    
First Line: Beware to sleep unroofed beneath the moon
Last Line: Beheld the grael, and lost by it all sight.
Subject(s): Moon


Beware to sleep unroofed beneath the moon;
There is a spirit blindness which descends
Upon the senses. Daylight beauty ends,
Making a drab procession ... noon to noon.
So I, upon a silver wind-cusped dune
One magic night, was struck without amends,
Knowing my fate and all that it portends;
Now life lies mute, an untranslated rune.

Now people come and go, and sunsets fade,
Dawns bloom and other moons slip down the sky;
My vision failed on that one argent night
With moonlight for a deathless accolade.
I am as one who has essayed too high,
Beheld the Grael, and lost by it all sight.





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