Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WHITE NIGHT, by MATHILDE BLIND


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A WHITE NIGHT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The land lay deluged by the moon
Last Line: As we were lapped and lost in love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Love


THE land lay deluged by the Moon;
The molten silver of the lake
Shimmered in many a broad lagoon
Between grey isles, whose copse and brake
Lay folded on the water's breast
Like halcyons in a floating nest.

And like a child who trusts in God
When in the dark it lies alone,
Stretched on the aromatic sod
My heart was laid against your own,
Against your heart, which seemed to be
Mine own to all Eternity.

Lapped in illimitable light,
The woods and waters seemed to swoon,
And clouds like angels-winged the night
And slipped away into the Moon,
Lost in that radiant flame above
As we were lapped and lost in love.






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