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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOON-LIT MIST, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poet's Biography
First Line: You woo me sleep, like an importunate lover
Last Line: Through moon-lit mist would yield his soul to sleep?
Subject(s): Sleep
First Line: You woo me sleep, like an importunate lover
Last Line: Through moon-lit mist would yield his soul to sleep?
Subject(s): Sleep
You woo me Sleep, like an importunate lover,
Think you that I could find in realms of dream
A sight so fair as yonder mists that hover
On luminous wings above Lynnhaven's stream?
The moon is reaching down with long, pale fingers,
Feeling for earth that she has lost the while.
In vain, till not one eerie fog-wraith lingers,
Dull sleep may strive to lure me or beguile!
Be on my very heart the scene engraven,
This wistful beauty mine to hold and keep! . . . .
Oh who that looks on my beloved Lynnhaven
Through moon-lit mist would yield his soul to sleep?
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