Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LONGING, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING


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LONGING, by                    
First Line: A crescent moon, the morning star, and sunrise in the sky
Last Line: —helen knight gooding, rapid city
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


A crescent moon, the morning star, and sunrise in the sky,
The far sweep of prairies wide, and a fresh breeze humming by.
It's then I stand and look and long for somber hills, and high,
Where boulders gloom, and in their shade bloom flowers, sweet and shy.

O level plains and little hills that stretch so far away;
Never a height to rest the eyes, a guide by night or day.
O frozen sea whose rolling swells never again shall play
Under the touch of restless winds, or tides which sweep and sway.

Forever lying in a dream, sleeper I once thought fair,
My heart now yearns for other charms, in fancy wanders where
Under a smoky pall, rise night-like hills of beauty rare;
For mighty rocks, and talking pines, and singing streams are there.

And all the while I stand and look, linger and long and sigh,
The prairie breeze, a wand'ring wind, comes soft and humming nigh.
Where have you been, wild wind of dawn, ere far and fast you fly?
O tell me, did you hear the pines' enchanting lullaby?

A crescent moon, and morning star, a sky of blue and gold,
The willows bare, a little creek, the prairie bleak and cold.
The rising sun sends out his beams fair pictures to unfold.
Unheeding all, I look beyond—a distant land behold.
—HELEN KNIGHT GOODING, RAPID CITY





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