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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography
First Line: Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon
Last Line: Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers
First Line: Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon
Last Line: Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers
Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon
From side to side of us as we go down its path;
I sit on the deck at midnight and watch it slipping and sliding,
Under my tilted chair, like a thin film of spilt water.
It is weaving a river of light to take the place of this river;
A river where we shall drift all night, then come to rest
in its shallows;
And then I shall wake from my drowsiness and look down from
some dim treetop
Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side.
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