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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER'S MOON, by FLORENCE MCCURDY
First Line: Sometimes, within its frame of dusky sky
Last Line: Where winter's moon swings low, its beckoning light.
Subject(s): Moon
First Line: Sometimes, within its frame of dusky sky
Last Line: Where winter's moon swings low, its beckoning light.
Subject(s): Moon
Sometimes, within its frame of dusky sky,
The winter's moon hangs low and swings its light
To gleam in cold, pale beauty, on the high
Stark limbs of elm trees, reaching in the night
Toward the unattained, the lovely thing --
That fair, bewitching element of grace
From all the world remote, fore'er on wing,
A cryptic smile upon the beauteous face.
And so, through all of life, I lift my eyes
To beauty's light wherever it may shine, --
Elusive as the blue of April skies,
Yet ever present, everywhere divine:
A ceaseless striving to surmount the height
Where winter's moon swings low, its beckoning light.
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