To the Autumnal Moon Autumnal Moon

1. 1Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!
2. 2Mother of wildly-working visions! hail!
3. 3I watch thy gliding, while with watery light
4. 4Thy weak eye glimmers through a fleecy veil;
5. 5And when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud
6. 6Behind the gather'd blackness lost on high;
7. 7And when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud
8. 8Thy placid lightning o'er the awaken'd sky.

1. 9Ah such is Hope! as changeful and as fair!
2. 10Now dimly peering on the wistful sight;
3. 11Now hid behind the dragon-wing'd Despair:
4. 12But soon emerging in her radiant might
5. 13She o'er the sorrow-clouded breast of Care
6. 14Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight.