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VARIATIONS: 9 by CONRAD AIKEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: MOONLIGHT, AND SHADOWS OF LEAVES
Last Line: FLEEING.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Moonlight, and shadows of leaves
On the white wall above me --
The shadows gallop and swirl without sound.
Blue moonlight, brief shadows of leaves,
And once more I see you,
Saying aloud, like a dreamer, "You love me,
You love me!"

Moonlight . . . down there in the garden
I know, without seeing,
The somnolent fountain is filled with blue fire.
I close my eyes, I pursue you
Through dream's fainter moonlight,
Ghostlike, with shadows of dead leaves, silently
Fleeing.



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