WITCHERY
by: Frank Dempster Sherman
(1860-1916)
- UT of the
purple drifts,
- From the shadow sea of night,
- On tides of musk a moth uplifts
- Its weary wings of white.
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- 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?
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- 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!
"Witchery" is reprinted
from The Little Book of Modern Verse. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. |
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