Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO LUNA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE


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TO LUNA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sister of the earliest light
Last Line: As endymion once drew thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Sorrow; Sadness


SISTER of the earliest light,
Type of loveliness in sorrow,
Silver mists thy radiance borrow,
Even as they cross thy sight.
When thou comest to the sky,
In their dusky hollows waken,
Spirits that are sad, forsaken,
Birds that shun the day, and I.

Looking downward far and wide,
Hidden things thou dost discover.
Luna! help a hapless lover,
Lift him kindly to thy side!
Aided by thy friendly beams,
Let him, through the lattice peeping,
Look into the room where, sleeping,
Lies the maiden of his dreams.

Ah, I see her! Now I gaze,
Bending in a trance Elysian,
And I strain my inmost vision,
And I gather all thy rays.
Bright and brighter yet I see
Charms no envious robes encumber;
And she draws me to her slumber,
As Endymion once drew thee.





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