'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight / Emily Brontë

XVIII

'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
     All soft, and still, and fair;
The silent time of midnight
     Shines sweetly everywhere,

But most where trees are sending
     Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
     A shelter from the sky.

And there in those wild bowers
     A lovely form is laid.
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
     Wave gently round her head.

~~
Emily Brontë (1818-1848), 1840
from Complete Poems, 1908

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

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