| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. The Moon | | By Mrs. Elizabeth Jesup Eames (1813–1856) |
| | Night-Scenes
IN her serene and solemn loveliness | |
| She looketh down, and meets a human gaze: | |
| Her fair familiar face, through the thin haze | |
| Of dewy night, revealeth not the less | |
| Her pure and perfect beauty. Fairy Moon, | 5 |
| Thy pearly finger silvereth the paper | |
| Whereon I write: small need of lamp, or taper, | |
| In this starred midnight’s haunted hour of noon. | |
| And O, the heaven-touched radiance of thy brow | |
| Is like a dream of poetry, enchanting | 10 |
| All the dark depths of my lone heart, beating | |
| With one bright vision of the past, that now | |
| Shines seraph-like, all sanctified and sainted. | |
| But for that spiritual presence, O how oft my heart had fainted! | | | | |
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