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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon
Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone.
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon
Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone.
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness
So the slim Moon, a young girl, shines upon
The forest and its nodding ridge, and stream
That cleaves with fainter silver the prone earth;
The Moon, as fatal-fair as Desdemona,
Pouring her brightness over all the valley
Smiles and makes other moons of stream and weir.
And now the Moor, a deep and sudden cloud,
Risen up out of the East on moody winds,
Dilating, smothers her loveliness with his fear,
Darkens her innocent look—and all is gone
That made night happy, all that made the woods,
The stream, the clefted darkness brim with light:
As sudden anger blinds for ever love,
And all that stays is grief for all that's gone.
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