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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: A little lonely child am I
Last Line: For me but sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: A little lonely child am I
Last Line: For me but sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness
A little lonely child am I
That have not any soul:
God made me as the homeless wave,
That has no goal.
A seal my father was, a seal
That once was man:
My mother loved him tho' he was
'Neath mortal ban.
He took a wave and drownëd her,
She took a wave and lifted him:
And I was born where shadows are
In sea-depths dim.
All through the sunny blue-sweet hours
I swim and glide in waters green:
Never by day the mournful shores
By me are seen.
But when the gloom is on the wave
A shell unto the shore I bring:
And then upon the rocks I sit
And plaintive sing.
I have no playmate but the tide
The seaweed loves with dark brown eyes:
The night-waves have the stars for play,
For me but sighs.
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