Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUT OF THE MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: Merely the moonlight
Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough.
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English


MERELY the moonlight
Piercing the boughs of my may-tree,
Falling upon my ferns;
Only the night
Touching my ferns with silver bloom
Of sea-flowers here in the sleeping city --
And suddenly the imagination burns
With knowledge of many a dark significant doom
Out of antiquity,
Sung to hushed halls by troubadours
Who knew the ways of the heart because they had seen
The moonlight washing the garden's deeper green
To silver flowers,
Falling with tidings out of the moon, as now
It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough.





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