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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 20. GRACIOUS MOONLIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
Last Line: And chase night's gloom, as thou and spirit's grief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Nature
First Line: Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
Last Line: And chase night's gloom, as thou and spirit's grief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Nature
EVEN as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car
Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,--
So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace
When the drear soul desires thee. Of that face
What shall be said,--which, like a governing star,
Gathers and garners from all things that are
Their silent penetrative loveliness?
O'er water-daisies and wild waifs of Spring,
There where the iris rears its gold-crowned sheaf
With flowering rush and sceptered arrow-leaf,
So have I marked Queen Dian, in bright ring
Of cloud above and wave below, take wing
And chase night's gloom, as thou and spirit's grief.
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