Poem A Day

Classic poem

The Moon, how definite its orb! (fragment)

by Samuel Coleridge

The Moon, how definite its orb!

Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze--

'Tis there indeed,--but where is it not?--

It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,

Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,

Whose very murmur does of it partake

And low and close the broad smooth mountain

Is more a thing of Heaven than when

Distinct by one dim shade and yet undivided from the universal cloud

In which it towers, finite in height.

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About this poem

First line
The Moon, how definite its orb!
Poet
Samuel Coleridge
Themes
nature, death, faith, time

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