Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDER THE MOON, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES


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First Line: Under the moon to her silver sands
Last Line: For a twelve-month and a day.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


I

UNDER the moon to her silver sands
Comes Morgana, Queen Le Fay,
Out of her dusky, dim-lit lands
Up to the moon-bathed, silver sands,
To frolic with her faery bands
Until the streak of day.

II

Her hair is a goblet of golden light,
Beautiful Queen Le Fay,
Her gown is gossamer soft as night,
Woven of mists and of moonbeams white;
There never was such a queen bedight
In all the world, men say.

III

Under the moon by the singing sea,
By the curve of the crystal bay
Her elfin vassals loud in glee
Awaken the stars with revelry,
And piercing sweet is the minstrelsy
That breaks on the stumbling day.

IV

Then down where the faery lanthorns glow
They vanish far away
To sleep by banks where the violets grow,
Where daffodils dream and the rain-drops go,
Where the springs of the little rivers flow—
For a twelve-month and a day.





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