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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LA LUNE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly rising, slowly strengthening moon
Last Line: You, o moon, must have understanding of these things.
Subject(s): Moon
First Line: Slowly rising, slowly strengthening moon
Last Line: You, o moon, must have understanding of these things.
Subject(s): Moon
Slowly rising, slowly strengthening moon,
Pardon us our fear in pride:
Pardon us our troubled quietnesses!
Aye, pardon us, O moon,
Round, bright upon the darkening!
Pardon us our little journeys endlessly repeated!
All halting tendernesses pardon us,
O high moon!
For you, nooning by night,
You having crept to the full,
You, O moon, must have understanding of these things.
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