H. C. Long. Through the Window near His Bed. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Through the Window near His Bed

By H. C. Long


THROUGH the window near his bed,
On his tousled head,
All her magic on the sprite
Poured the Lady of the night.

Down a ladder came the lad	5
With the moonlight mad;
Down a ladder from his room
To the moonlit garden’s gloom.

White with light was every limb—
Moonlight maddened him	10
As he nakedly came down
To the garden’s moonlit frown.

Trod he underneath the trees
With a sprightly ease,
While the moonlight on his face	15
Lingered with a wingèd grace.

Thus he came to know the smart
In the trembling heart,
When that cruel bee, the moon,
Stings one in her midnight noon.	20