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The Moon by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)
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The Moon
 
  Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality below her orb is placed.
--Raleigh


The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray
Mounts up the eastern sky,
Not doomed to these short nights for aye,
But shining steadily.

She does not wane, but my fortune,
Which her rays do not bless,
My wayward path declineth soon,
But she shines not the less.

And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She's mistress of the night.

Henry David Thoreau


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Cecilia Nicoletti (3/19/2007 1:21:00 PM)
Even if superstition says that we must no look to the moon for too long.Most of those who have the habit to contemplate her and enjoy its pale light will be enchanted to read a poem like this.Thoureau was a kind of man who try to feel its humanity as part of nature returning to nature to feel human again.He have been spying the moon over the woods.Like a solitary black wolf...to be human again.
quercus ... (11/3/2006 2:12:00 PM)
The metaphoric images well penned here proof to have a powerful impact on one’s
imagination. I like the way the woman is compared to a moon that never stops
giving out its light…

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