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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography
First Line: I often look when the moon is low
Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go.
Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean
First Line: I often look when the moon is low
Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go.
Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean
I OFTEN look when the moon is low
Thro' that other window on the wall,
At a land all beautiful under snow,
Blotted with shadows that come and go
When the winds rise up and fall.
And the form of a beautiful maid
In the white silence stands,
And beckons me with her hands.
And when the cares of the day are laid,
Like sacred things, in the mart away,
I dream of the low-moon land and the maid
Who will not weary of waiting, or jade
Of calling to me for aye.
And I would go if I knew the sea
That lips the shore where the moon is low,
For a longing is on me that will not go.
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