George Darley

Here you will find the Poem The Moon and Sea of poet George Darley

The Moon and Sea

Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass 
And ponders over her image in the sea, 
Her cloudy locks smoothing from off her face 
That she may all as bright as beauty be; 
It is my wont to sit upon the shore 
And mark with what an even grace she glides 
Her two concurrent paths of azure o'er, 
One in the heavens, the other in the tides: 
Now with a transient veil her face she hides 
And ocean blackens with a human frown; 
Now her fine screen of vapour she divides 
And looks with all her light of beauty down; 
Her splendid smile over-silvering the main 
Spreads her the glass she looks into again.