Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3 — Earth and Moon

EARTH AND MOON

I saw the day like some great monarch die, Gold-couched, behind the clouds’ rich tapestries.

Then, purple-sandaled, clothed in silences Of sleep, through halls of skyey lazuli, The twilight, like a mourning queen, trailed by, Dim-paged of dreams and shadowy mysteries;

And now the night, the star-robed child of these, In meditative loveliness draws nigh.

Earth,--like to Romeo,--deep in dew and scent, Beneath Heaven’s window, watching till a light, Like some white blossom, in its square be set,-- Lifts a faint face unto the firmament, That, with the moon, grows gradually bright, Bidding him climb and clasp his Juliet.