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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NEW MOON, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Day, you have bruised and beaten me
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon
First Line: Day, you have bruised and beaten me
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon
Day, you have bruised and beaten me,
As rain beats down the bright, proud sea,
Beaten my body, bruised my soul,
Left me nothing lovely or whole,
Yet I have wrested a gift from you,
Day that dies in dusky blue:
For suddenly over the factories
I saw a moon in the cloudy seas,
A wisp of beauty all alone
In a world as hard and gray as stone,
Oh who could be bitter and want to die
When a maiden moon wakes up in the sky?
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