Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOON ON THE SEA, by MARIE DE REGNIER



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First Line: Where the dim twilight dreams
Last Line: Pale moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De
Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean


Where the dim twilight dreams
The crescent moon seems
A mollusk-shell;
Pearly and clear it beams
Until each cassis gleams
With the same spell.

In the dark night, to what ear,
Sad moon, do you appear
And plaintively impel
Your voice like the sound we hear
Rolling far and near
In the conch-cell?

Divine moon, will your art
Soothe my worn heart
Where the tears well?
To my dreams impart
Your nocturnal dart
The trees and flowers tell!

In the tall, dark, vibrant pine
Under its bark like wine
Your strange songs dwell;
Harmonious, benign,
Your murmur the trees confine
The winds compel.

I shall keep in my hair
Your stirring, if you care,
Moon-caravel:
Heaven is your shore, overcast or fair,
As the shore is heaven, there
For the shell.

And as the pines bend
Through the dusk, to send
The nautilus' tune,
My verses without end
Your peaceful charm extend,
Pale moon!





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