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


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First Line: Isled in the midnight air
Last Line: To her strange tryst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Moths


Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into glooming and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!'

Lovely in dye and fan,
A-tremble in shimmering grace,
A moth from her winter swoon
Uplifts her face:

Stares from her glamorous eyes;
Wafts her on plumes like mist;
In ecstasy swirls and sways
To her strange tryst.





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