Ambitious of their solitary reign,
Whose many-pointed brilliance fills the sky,
The silver moon doth rise in majesty,
And with her splendor shares the stars' domain.
Now as she takes her lucent course on high,
Her light doth shroud all things in mystery
And subtle glamour. As of realms unknown
It seems- a radiance from worlds that lie
Beyond our ken, and glimpsed in dreams alone.
And in those rays is tender witchery,
Which softly doth erase the scars of day,
And with a pallid beauty touches all.
The Moon's light is a painter's brush, and she
An artist skilled who doth the world array,
In silence, with a white, enchanted pall.
Moonlight (ambitious)
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: alone, beauty, silence, silver, sky, world, tender, white, rise, unknown, mystery, majesty, high, erase, Valentine's Day, light, moon, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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