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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the purple drifts
Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean
First Line: Out of the purple drifts
Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean
Out of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.
Is it a dream or ghost
Of a dream that comes to me,
Here in the twilight on the coast,
Blue cinctured by the sea?
Fashioned of foam and froth --
And the dream is ended soon,
And lo, whence came the moon-white moth
Comes now the moth-white moon!
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