1Something startles me where I thought I was safest,I withdraw from the still woods I loved,I will not go now on the pastures to walk,I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?How can you be alive you growths of spring?How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you?Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?Where have you disposed of their carcasses?Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.2Behold this compost! A Clear Midnight Walt Whitman - 1819-1892 This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars. Quotes tagged as "moonlight" Showing 1-30 of 249. In Smoke, Thoreau's description of smoke is intense and creates a vivid picture in the reader's mind with metaphors that compare the smoke to an Icarian bird or incense. Off to an island in the sun, nobody else, it's just us two. Friendship And the dark of the pines. When the ebony world lies in waiting, for the yellow canary's tune, Pulling out Post Captain (book two in the series) was the only sensible thing to do. About "A Clear Midnight" You know the rest. 27./2. It begins: Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps through the woodland shade; Thou conscious witness of unknown delight, The Lover's guardian, and the Muse's aid! "Shoot for the moon. She is the moon-gazing hare, and can be seen in countless artistic depictions by artists modern and ancient. Consider this first poem evoking imagery of the pale moonlight against the darkness of midnight. The royal imagery works well to offset the potentially grim image of an Empress of the Night, and Longfellow makes sure to emphasize the serene and proud figure to avoid any malicious connotations that readers might associate with nighttime. (winter 2010) All Exits Are Final. And at the windows seen again. 2023 LoveToKnow Media. Andrew Marvell was a 17th century metaphysical English poet that often used hyperbole in his writing. In many of his works, it is clear that he was looking to make his readers think about something that they might otherwise consider either mundane or personal. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. The mind by way of moon ray bath On amber cloud banks passing over The worldwide slumbering scene Of daffodils and dewy clover And all the chlorophyll in between Each visionary midnight sigh Partaken by nocturnal lovers Of every vernal lunar phase on high Whose radiation always discovers Inspiration in some onshore flow, 2: Here, 'bower' represents (a) a potted plant (b) a framework that supports climbing plants (c) a bouquet of flowers (d) a flower vase. 'Hymn to the Moon' is a wonderful short poem about the moon. And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. I needed comfort and a good rollicking story, and I needed it now! Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 1, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets. Accessed 2 March 2023. The challenge of translating poetry seems to be write a new poem referencing as close as possible the original. It has an illuminating horn and mane Four graceful legs with a bushy tail. Hirsch, who has defined a poem as "a soul in action through words," connects Whitman's poem with the essay "The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a mentor of Whitman's: "Here we find ourselves suddenly, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go very warily and reverently.". in the breathless hours of raven midnight. One famous example is Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To the Moon" from 1820: "Art thou pale for weariness, Of climbing Heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless, Among the stars that have a different birth. On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. It was high, faint and white. He uses a simile at the end of this stanza to describe the moon like a childs kite. And as you would expect, it now has an endless number of translations. Everything is different; it is silent, and it feels closer to divinity. have you done something wrong in heaven, That God has hidden your face? Two souls united in beat of hearts When Moon rises high among the stars A torrid swelling under velvet midnight skies. 'Twixt the white of the surf on its sea edge Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge. In fact, the hare has been associated with the moon for centuries. The language here suggests that the phantom and the moonlight are both the same entity. Walker, Andrew. Who was fashioned of dream-stuff and moonlight 1.OF the visages of thingsAnd of piercing through to the accepted hells beneath;Of uglinessTo me there is just as much in it as there is in beautyAnd now the ugliness of human beings is acceptable to me;Of detected personsTo me, detected persons are not, in any respect, worse than undetected per- sonsand are not in any respect worse than I am myself;Of criminalsTo me, any judge, or any juror, is equally criminaland any reputable person is alsoand the President is also.2.OF waters, forests, hills;Of the earth at large, whispering through medium of me;Of vistaSuppose some sight in arriere, through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey;(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become suppliedAnd of what will yet be supplied,Because all I see and know, I believe to have purport in what will yet be supplied.3.OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except as it results to their Bodies and Souls,So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked;And often, to me, each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,And of each one, the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,And often, to me, those men and women pass unwit- tingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,And often, to me, they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,And often, to me, they are sad, hasty, unwaked son- nambules, walking the dusk.4.OF ownershipAs if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;Of EqualityAs if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myselfAs if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same;Of JusticeAs if Justice could be anything but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.5.As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing,To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral, in mist, of a wreck at sea,Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations, founder'd off the Northeast coast, and going downOf the steamship Arctic going down,Of the veil'd tableauWomen gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so closeO the moment!O the huge sobA few bubblesthe white foam spirting upAnd then the women gone,Sinking there, while the passionless wet flows on And I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?Are Souls drown'd and destroy'd so?Is only matter triumphant?6.OF what I write from myselfAs if that were not the resum;Of HistoriesAs if such, however complete, were not less complete than my poems;As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as my poems;As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.7.OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of those who do not believe in men. The use of the phrase enchanted avenue suggests that this is not at all a bad thing, however, and it, along with the descriptions of the previous verse, gives Moonlight an exciting kind of feeling to its story. And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies. Kindled the land into flame with its heat. Midnight And Moonlight Roderic Quinn 1867 (Surry Hills, New South Wales) - 1949 (Darlinghurst, New South Wales) Life Love Melancholy Nature AS one singled out from his fellows, Enchanted I roam Through night with its music and moonlight, And sea-sheen and foam. Eyes in deep shadows, in her green dress at the ball, This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless. Darkness can be so much more than it seems Of seeing; what we bring we find. Relationships Shining light at midnight a mirror on the waters stage A mirror of earths beauty pleasured by the beauty of your attention . Others still see the common life of every day, except darker. A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door. When a day's flamenco dancers, are the rapture of moonlight! 2 Mar. If you ever feel lonesome And you're down in San Antone Beg, steal or borrow two nickels or a dime To call me on the phone And I'll meet you at Alamo Mission We can say our prayers The Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mother Will heal us as we kneel there In the moonlight, in the midnight . The language here suggests that the phantom and the moonlight are both the same entity. The pain-filled phantom from the previous verses emerges as a supremely splendid being of light, walking on the clouds in the sky as an empress on her throne. It turns out the graffiti was the Midnight poem. . Soon we'll bring. The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other: The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother. It was two by the village clock,When he came to the bridge in Concord town. I read the little that there was to it, about 15 yrs ago, because like you, I was reluctant to finish my time with Jack and Stephen and their families. As a pale phantom with a lamp In a room of wild, color swirls and vague bright lights, Then he climbed to the tower of the church,Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,To the belfry-chamber overhead,And startled the pigeons from their perchOn the sombre rafters, that round him madeMasses and moving shapes of shade,By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,To the highest window in the wall,Where he paused to listen and look downA moment on the roofs of the town,And the moonlight flowing over all. Moonlight is at the heart of what his poems are about: beauty, mystery, evanescence; night, death, loss. At that moment, it seemed to him, As a phantom, or a ghost. The poet brought him to another world, one of the past that allowed the poem to feel real, or as real as a ghost or phantom. Simple Gifts. Beautiful Poems About the Moon. Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and streetWanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door,The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers Marching down to their boats on the shore. Mysterious chambers of the air. As if this phantom, full of pain, Your email address will not be published. 'Twas Beauty herself that awoke me And whispered 'Arise, I have lit all the lamps of my palace To gladden your eyes!' I rose at her bidding, and surely 'Tis just as she said The moon, spilling splendour around me, Brimfull overhead; Rich perfumes from garden and garden And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm., Then he said Good night! and with muffled oar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified, Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street. Sapardi Djoko Damono. Moonlight on magnolias. The second verse of the poem opens with the line, Now hidden in cloud, and now revealed, and the now-serene spirit walks across the clouds, both descriptions which could be applied to beams of moonlight. He was editor of the Indonesian literary magazines Basis, Horison, and Kalam. Oh Sleep! Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. "Midnight And Moonlight" Poetry.com. A Glow in the Woods What's that glowing unusually bright? Infographic created by the poet Midnight at the Oasis. Robert Frost weaves a tale of woe through his descriptive poem about an accident with a saw. The first and second verses combined essentially explain to the reader that there is a phantom who lives in a ruin of some sort, and that it is only sometimes visible. Moonlight Analysis Stanzas One and Two As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Like myriad soap bubbles are rising up, and then bursting colorfully midair! Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Descriptive poetry is literary work that displays the talent of those whose rich vocabularies, adept writing skills and vivid imaginations come together to create masterpieces such as the ones of Wordsworth, Dickinson, Thoreau, and others. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. (Indonesia, 1940) Sapardi Djoko Damono was born in Solo, Central Java, on 20 March 1940, and spent his childhood and adolescent years in his hometown. When he came to the bridge in Concord town. A time when people (men) were schooled in the classics. The beach, a brave riband of silver, In the hour of darkness and peril and need. It is a fragment usually attributed to Sappho, and first recorded by Hephaestion (2nd century AD). How I long for a magical bugle, Contemporary Fiction It was fun to read/compare the difference translations; like you, I favorite Mary Barnards, with Anne Carsons a close second. Translation is something which Ive pondered on much over the years, and particularly with poetry I feel the readers response is a very personal one. To sound through their slumbers and wake them, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet: That was all! A Bakewell tart, which, of course as they are quick to point out isn't a tart at all, but a Pudding. These quatrains follow a very straightforward rhyme scheme of AABB CCDD, changing end sounds from stanza to stanza. Women's Issues. For example: Sign up to unveil the best kept secrets in poetry, Home Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Daylight and Moonlight. The moon bright not shy though very humble . bringing beauteous, hidden truths to light, Moonlight on magnolias. The latter features in the second and fifth stanzas, as well as more broadly in the crafting of a poem about day and night. [Verse 1] It's close to midnight And something evil's lurking in the dark Under the moonlight You see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream But terror takes the sound before. All things are changed. Night, sleep, death and the stars. Great poem, great post! Sleeping beauty has reawakened, and it is springtime again, Now hidden in cloud, and now revealed, I look, but recognize no more . Thanks so much for the info (maybe its time to seriously think about that re-read). Through night with its music and moonlight, And sea-sheen and foam. Amidst The Flowers A Jug Of Wine Li Po. The Garden by Moonlight. In the books you have read,How the British Regulars fired and fled,How the farmers gave them ball for ball,From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,Chasing the red-coats down the lane,Then crossing the fields to emerge againUnder the trees at the turn of the road,And only pausing to fire and load. And summon them here! Barefoot in tangy tangerines, in the warm, soft, wandering breezes, No longer with the crowd, now apart from the others, Blinking red and green and blue. With its own tints the sober gray. Moonlight and Midnight - a poem by sunny day - All Poetry Moonlight and Midnight Bathing suits, shorts, tank tops and tees along with evening clothes too. Really "Her hair as dark as midnight Sleek and wavy, trailing down. The wide variety of atmospheric and thematic shifts within Moonlightthat follow its own narrators journey are expansive enough that each reader will likely relate to one or more of the ideas presented therein, but likely not to all of them. Were by the crumbling walls concealed, It is through you visiting Poem Analysis that we are able to contribute to charity. This is mimicked by the fact that a reader is in the middle of a poem as well. USA I knew it would happen. This post is part ofA Poem For a Thursdaywith Jennifer @Holds Upon Happiness. He likened the first movement to a boat . 5th line describes the night as cool with no sound It is made available here without charge for Alone in the deep woods at midnight. In the poems mentioning either the moon or its A Poem for a Thursday Barefoot in peaceful dreamland, caressed softly by romantic moon, And yet, through the gloom and the light. Its cooler, more serene, and Fell on the village, vale, and hill. Its a new experience, one thats juxtaposed against the feverish day. He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight. Bob Arter. It turns out the graffiti was the Midnight poem. The Doors were formed after an initial meeting in which Ray Manzarek was won over by the lyrics of Jim Morrison's Moonlight Drive. Although Longfellow uses the word lies in the sense of something resting or waiting, the dual meaning of the word works well with his exclamation of illusion! to start off the verse. 2011 For example, the transition between lines two and three of the first stanza as well as lines three and four of the second stanza. 'Cameo' Una Marson from The Oxford Book of Caribbean Poetry. The thrill of her magic upon them Read Poem. We respond to all comments too, giving you the answers you need. 2021 The very ground beneath my feet Wikipedia also describes it is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. She lights up when I look for a snack, more welcoming than a spouse in a midnight tryst. She walks the terraces of cloud, Bradley Noy & Dean Musa) Jan-Marie & the Journey of Sound. These Moon Midnight poems are examples of Midnight poems about Moon. It is through you visiting Poem Analysis that we are able to contribute to charity. And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. The fifth and sixth verses of Moonlight see its new narrator walking through their town during the night, and everything is different. By thy pale beams I solitary rove, To thee my tender grief confide; Serenely sweet you gild the silent grove, Every new breath an ache and slow release. Poem Solutions Limited International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom. By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch. "Midnight And Moonlight" Poetry.com. By registering with PoetryNook.Com and adding a poem, you represent that you own the copyright to that poem and are granting PoetryNook.Com permission to publish the poem. Midnight And Moonlight Poem by Roderic Quinn Roderic Quinn Poems Books Biography Comments Midnight And Moonlight AS one singled out from his fellows, Enchanted I roam Through night with its music and moonlight, And sea-sheen and foam. This fragment is a lyric poem, a poem designed to be sung to the lyre. Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata was published in 1801 as op. The final verse of the poem concludes it on this note, in a philosophical way. Discover other poems and poets from Indonesia, Discover other poems and poets in Indonesian, Poetry International FoundationWestersingel 163014 GN Rotterdam+31 10 28 22 777info(@)poetry.nl, Translation: 2009, Hasif Amini and Sapardi Djoko Damono, 2009, Hasif Amini and Sapardi Djoko Damono. My favourite is the Mary Barnard, with its nod to ageing. I sat in silent musing; The soft wind waved my hair; It told me heaven was glorious, And sleeping earth was fair. The story of Paul Revere and his brave adventure is recounted in history books throughout the United States, presenting his persona as a paragon of patriotism. Daylight and Moonlight is a fairly simple poem in which Longfellow uses direct language and thought-provoking images to describe a speakers experiences of day and night. For, borne on the night-wind of the Past. MAGICAL MOONLIGHT I love walking at midnight as moonlight shadows dance on the inky blue ocean and watch as they sparkle and shimmer like tiny stars, pirouetting gracefully like prima ballerinas with the ocean as their stage 9/3/19 Writing Challenge 1, September 2019 - Eight Line Form Sponsor, Dear Heart - Wiishkobi Ode Checked with PS Syllable . art thou jealous of Beauty When he writes that only the spirit glorifies, he is pointing out that while everything looks different at night, nothing actually has changed except for the lighting. 'Twas Beauty herself that awoke me 2 Mar. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." Les Brown. Walter De La Mare. Search Midnight Poems: Ode to My Refrigerator .I've grown quite fond of the old gal in my house. Nancy Au. He depicts the moon, faint and kite-like in the sky at noon and his time spent reading poetry in the light yesterday. In the third stanza, the poem starts to transition into nighttime. Objects familiar to my view; To moonlight, Autumn moonlight, All soft and still and sweet; It hides more than it reveals . 2018 Humour It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun, as well as the second-densest satellite in the Solar System after Jupiter's satellite Io (among those whose densities are known).. I have lit all the lamps of my palace and the Moon's shadows dance into my room through my bedroom window and Stars twinkle in Night's black gown streaked with midnight-blue such picturesque beauty that only poets can pen with their quills and feather pens dipped in black ink stacks of papers describing millions of different themes. The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight. At times like this, I wish I could read and translate Ancient Greek! Then old men and young men forth-coming Roderic Joseph Quinn was an Australian poet. Unaware of the light and the wonder, Since early childhood, I had been enamored, of that limpid, pearly globe, Filled with beautiful images,Daylight and Moonlightjuxtaposes lightness, darkness, and celebrates how glorious they both are. Excerpt: Underneath there lies By palace, park, and colonnade Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive. Sitting lost in thought, of what no one will ever know, CBCA While lucid still, we have such fun together! Written in 1798, the same year that Coleridge's landmark volume of poems, Lyrical Ballads (co-authored with Wordsworth), appeared, 'Frost at Midnight' is a night-time meditation on childhood and raising children, offered in a conversational manner and focusing on several key themes of Romantic poetry: the formative importance of childhood and the way it shapes who we become, and the role . Bound forever, relentless we roam: reunited at last on the distant river of stars. 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