LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with their arms toss’d wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.
Classic poem
Look Down, Fair Moon.
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About this poem
- First line
- LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
- Poet
- Walt Whitman
- Themes
- nature, beauty, faith, night
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