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MOONRISE by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WILL YOU GLIMMER ON THE SEA?
Last Line: WE MEASURE HER BY THE PINE TREES.
Subject(s): BIBLE;

Will you glimmer on the sea?
will you fling your spear-head
on the shore?
what note shall we pitch?
we have a song,
on the bank we share our arrows;
the loosed string tells our note:

O flight
bring her swiftly to our song.
She is great,
we measure her by the pine trees.



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