| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Henry Rowe. 1750–1819 |
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| 508. Moon |
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| THEE too, modest tressèd maid, | |
| When thy fallen stars appear; | |
| When in lawn of fire array'd | |
| Sov'reign of yon powder'd sphere; | |
| To thee I chant at close of day, | 5 |
| Beneath, O maiden Moon! thy ray. | |
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| Throned in sapphired ring supreme, | |
| Pregnant with celestial juice, | |
| On silver wing thy diamond stream | |
| Gives what summer hours produce; | 10 |
| While view'd impearl'd earth's rich inlay, | |
| Beneath, O maiden Moon! thy ray. | |
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| Glad, pale Cynthian wine I sip, | |
| Breathed the flow'ry leaves among; | |
| Draughts delicious wet my lip; | 15 |
| Drown'd in nectar drunk my song; | |
| While tuned to Philomel the lay, | |
| Beneath, O maiden Moon! thy ray. | |
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| Dew, that od'rous ointment yields, | |
| Sweets, that western winds disclose, | 20 |
| Bathing spring's more purpled fields, | |
| Soft 's the band that winds the rose; | |
| While o'er thy myrtled lawns I stray | |
| Beneath, O maiden Moon! thy ray. | |
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