Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FLOWER TO THE MOON, by ELIZA KEARY Poet's Biography First Line: O moon! O moon! Last Line: Up to loving and sorrow? Subject(s): Moon | ||||||||
O MOON! O moon! Sailing light of the night, O beautiful moon; You glide by so quickly, Linger awhile, one little while, Moon, spare just a smile Out of your white light, Out of your broad, soft eye; To beguile this little, low life, me. There you go, on and on, Tenderly, widely, over the earth and the sky; Have pity, sweet pity, upon Only a lilybud, queen, a white lily; Yesternight I could peep At you fair -- that was all; half asleep In my bud life, with scarcely an outlook even; But to-day I have riven My prison, and grown, All the hot afternoon, So large that I see you, moon -- Beautiful, brave, ay, and pant For the free air above, And faint at the scant Life below. Is it love that I feel, do I grow Up to loving and sorrow? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN THE MOON AND THE SPECTATOR by LEONIE ADAMS FULL MOON by KARLE WILSON BAKER NO MORE OF THE MOON by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP THE DEPARTURE by DENISE LEVERTOV THE MOON IN GREECE by TIMOTHY LIU A FAREWELL TO SISTER MARY OF THE BLESSED TRINITY by ELIZA KEARY |
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