Poem-A-Day: Trumbull Stickney, They Lived Enamoured of the Lovely Moon

	July 22, 2012 Today's poem appears in The Poems of Trumbull Stickney, published by Cornell University Library. More from this author Other Stickney Poems Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Loneliness Mnemosyne On Some Shells Found Inland You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		They Lived Enamoured of the Lovely Moon by Trumbull Stickney They lived enamoured of the lovely moon, The dawn and twilight on their gentle lake. Then Passion marvellously born did shake Their breast and drave them into the mid-noon. Their lives did shrink to one desire, and soon They rose fire-eyed to follow in the wake Of one eternal thought,—when sudden brake Their hearts. They died, in miserable swoon. Of all their agony not a sound was heard. The glory of the Earth is more than they. She asks her lovely image of the day: A flower grows, a million boughs are green, And over moving ocean-waves the bird Chases his shadow and is no more seen. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend