A Poet Looks At The Moon

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Title:     A Poet Looks At The Moon
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

I hear a woman singing in my garden,
But I look at the moon in spite of her.

I have no thought of trying to find the singer
Singing in my garden;
I am looking at the moon.

And I think the moon is honouring me
With a long silver look.

I blink
As bats fly black across the ray;
But when I raise my head the silver look
Is still upon me.

The moon delights to make eyes of poets her mirror,
And poets are many as dragon scales
On the moonlit sea.

From the Chinese of Chang Jo Hsu.

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Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Poet Looks At The Moon

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