Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WASP TRAP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS


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First Line: This moonlight makes
Last Line: So glistening.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


This moonlight makes
The lovely lovelier
Than ever before lakes
And meadows were.

And yet they are not,
Though this their hour is, more
Lovely than things that were not
Lovely before.

Nothing on earth,
And in the heavens no star,
For pure brightness is worth
More than that jar,

For wasps meant, now
A star -- long may it swing
From the dead apple-bough,
So glistening.





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