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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG (11), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon
Last Line: Aspiring love has hallowed passion's tide.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Moon; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love
First Line: Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon
Last Line: Aspiring love has hallowed passion's tide.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Moon; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love
Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon,
That with her strange mysterious beauty glowing,
Over misty hills and waters flowing,
Crowned the long twilight loveliness of June:
And thus in me, and thus in me, they spake,
The solemn secret of first love did wake.
Above the hills the blushing orb arose;
Her shape encircled by a radiant bower,
In which the nightingale with charmed power
Poured forth enchantment o'er the dark repose:
And thus in me, and thus in me, they said,
Earth's mists did with the sweet new spirit wed.
Far up the sky with ever purer beam,
Upon the throne of night the moon was seated,
And down the valley glens the shades retreated,
And silver light was on the open stream.
And thus in me, and thus in me, they sighed,
Aspiring Love has hallowed Passion's tide.
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