Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NIGHT SAILING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON


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NIGHT SAILING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver web across the sky
Last Line: How shall we miss the starry web?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails


THE silver web across the sky
Is hung with trembling stars;
Moon, the spider, spun it high
And bright above our spars,
And then swung down behind the sea
Till we should sail out quietly.

Now like a moth we move tonight
With dark sails wing and wing,
And take our soft and shadowed flight
For far adventuring—
The wind is fair, and tide at ebb—
How shall we miss the starry web?





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