Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOONRISE, by HELENE THURSTON



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First Line: The cool and trailing garments of the dusk
Last Line: Her face smiles down upon the waiting world.
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Rain; Bedtime


The cool and trailing garments of the dusk
Have dimmed the flaming ribbons of the sun.
From a walled garden comes the scent of musk.—
Beyond the darkening shadows of the trees
The black garbed mountains guard their mysteries.
The night-wind whispers secrets of a tryst

The moon must keep with the enchanted world
That waits—enwrapped in clouds of purple mist—
Impatiently the hour when radiant light
Shall pierce the thralling curtain of the night.
At last a faint far lustre tips the mountain's crest,
And drenches all the trees with silver rain.
The Goddess of the moon, in glittering garments
dressed,
Comes forth like some fair eastern temple maid;—
The incense of her draperies fills the glade,

A filmy band of mist across her breast—
The fringes of her robe are caught with stars,—
And shyly, as if heeding earth's behest,
The edges of her veil are gently curled—
Her face smiles down upon the waiting world.





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