O MOON! O moon! Sailing light of the night, O beautiful moon; You glide by so quickly, Linger awhile, one little while, Moon, spare just a smile Out of your white light, Out of your broad, soft eye; To beguile this little, low life, me. There you go, on and on, Tenderly, widely, over the earth and the sky; Have pity, sweet pity, upon Only a lilybud, queen, a white lily; Yesternight I could peep At you fair -- that was all; half asleep In my bud life, with scarcely an outlook even; But to-day I have riven My prison, and grown, All the hot afternoon, So large that I see you, moon -- Beautiful, brave, ay, and pant For the free air above, And faint at the scant Life below. Is it love that I feel, do I grow Up to loving and sorrow? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW THEY GO ON by JAMES GALVIN SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE by JAMES GALVIN QUESTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FLORIDA GHOST by SIDNEY LANIER ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY by SIDNEY LANIER BOTANICAL GARDENS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |