Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG TO NATURE, by ELISE WOODWARD


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SONG TO NATURE, by                    
First Line: I've seen the moon a blatant globe of gold
Last Line: Of pulsing nature with a pagan heart.
Subject(s): Nature


I've seen the moon a blatant globe of gold;
The autumn draped defiantly in red;
The sky a tombstone like a jelly mold,
A granite-glinting shadow overhead.
The stars have been brief bits of broken glass;
Black night has pilfered all my sight from me,
Still in the supple darknesses there pass,
Dim shadows of each substance yet to be:
White water diamonds on the sparkling sands;
The gleam of sunlight in a prisoned place;
The veil of time a moment in my hands
Musty and rotting like a long-used lace,
Then love recedes and I become a part
Of pulsing nature with a pagan heart.





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