Posted by: Scribble | 22/05/2008

Slowly, Silently, now the Moon…..

In the absence of anything in particular to write, here’s a poem that may take you back to your school days.

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.  

 

 

  

 


Walter de la Mare


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