<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nocturne</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The earth, still heavy and warm with afternoon,<br>Dazed by the moon:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The earth, tormented with the moon’s light,<br>Wandering in the night:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">La, La, The moon is a lovely thing to see—<br>The moon is an agony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full moon, moon rise, the old old pain<br>Of brightness in dilated eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ache of still<br>Elbows leaning on the narrow sill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of motionless cold hands upon the wet<br>Marble of the parapet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of open eyelids of a child behind<br>The crooked glimmer of the windown blind,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of sliding faint remindful squares<br>Across the lamplight on the rocking-chairs:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do we stand so late<br>Stiff fingers on the moonlit gate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do we stand<br>To watch so long the fall of moonlight on the sand?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it we cannot recall?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tormented by the moon’s light<br>The earth turns maundering through the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348247" data-title="Nocturne de Archibald MacLeish" data-description="The earth, still heavy and warm with afternoon, Dazed by the moon: The earth, tormented with the moon’s light, Wandering in the night: La, La, The moon is a lovely thing to see— The moon is an agony. Full moon, moon rise, the old old pain O..."></div> </div> </div>

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