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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the silver bow! By thy pale beam Last Line: Poor wearied pilgrim -- in this toiling scene! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Variant Title(s): To The Moon Subject(s): Moon | |||
Queen of the silver bow! -- by thy pale beam, Alone and pensive, I delight to stray, And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream, Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast; And oft I think -- fair planet of the night, That in thy orb, the wretched may have rest: The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Released by death -- to thy benignant sphere; And the sad children of Despair and Woe Forget, in thee, their cup of sorrow here. Oh! that I soon may reach thy world serene, Poor wearied pilgrim -- in this toiling scene! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN THE MOON AND THE SPECTATOR by LEONIE ADAMS FULL MOON by KARLE WILSON BAKER NO MORE OF THE MOON by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP THE DEPARTURE by DENISE LEVERTOV THE MOON IN GREECE by TIMOTHY LIU ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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