To the Moon (Smith)

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Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays (1784)
by Charlotte Turner Smith
To the Moon
9245Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays — To the Moon1784Charlotte Turner Smith

Queen of the silver bow!--by thy pale beam,
Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,
And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream,
Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way.
And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light
Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast;
And oft I think--fair planet of the night,
That in thy orb, the wretched may have rest:
The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go,
Released by Death--to thy benignant sphere;
And the sad children of Despair and Woe
Forget, in thee, their cup of sorrow here.
Oh! that I soon may reach thy world serene,
Poor wearied pilgrim--in this toiling scene!

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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