Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SILVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: Slowly, silently, now the moon
Last Line: By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silver; Bedtime


Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.





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