Mathilde Blind

Here you will find the Poem A White Night of poet Mathilde Blind

A White Night

THE land lay deluged by the Moon; 
The molten silver of the lake 
Shimmered in many a broad lagoon 
Between grey isles, whose copse and brake 
Lay folded on the water's breast 
Like halcyons in a floating nest. 

And like a child who trusts in God 
When in the dark it lies alone, 
Stretched on the aromatic sod 
My heart was laid against your own, 
Against your heart, which seemed to be 
Mine own to all Eternity. 

Lapped in illimitable light, 
The woods and waters seemed to swoon, 
And clouds like angels-winged the night 
And slipped away into the Moon, 
Lost in that radiant flame above 
As we were lapped and lost in love.