Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOONLIGHT AND DREAMS, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING


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MOONLIGHT AND DREAMS, by                    
First Line: Oh moon, moon hanging in a high translucent sky
Last Line: While over our dust the moon shall shine and loving vigil keep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares


Oh moon, moon hanging in a high translucent sky --
So cold and shining, so far from one who wonders why
Such beauty and such peace should rest with you,
While I should have no peace, and find so much to do.
Oh moon, fair evanescent ever-changing moon,
The night now creeps about me and in the woods a loon
Eerily calls to his nesting mate brooding so tenderly,
And the whippoorwill cries from his perch in the maple tree.

I shall walk in my garden under the wonderful moon;
And though the path is dark, my heart shall be quiet soon.
For the moon has told me a secret, and I am happy at last
Happy -- but yet my heart is beating too loud and too fast.
The moon has whispered to me the words of a haunting song
And the night wind brought the music, as through the night so long
I walked between the daisies, and the larkspur growing tall,
With the canterbury bells ringing from their place beside the wall.

It is well to walk alone -- with only the dreaming moon
To hear the broken prayers and songs I softly croon;
But her light is dimmed as silently the dawn
Comes stealing over my garden, now all my grief is gone.
The moon has washed away all my sorrow and my woe,
And pale and calm, as the moonlight fades, I know
That life is only a moonlit dream and death is a dreamless sleep,
While over our dust the moon shall shine and loving vigil keep.





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