Witchery
Witchery
Poem
Out of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.
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?
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.
Notes
Cinctured means encircled.
Written by Frank Dempster Sherman.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This poem can be found in "The Child's Companion" (1844) with the author given as S.W.P.
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