PoemThis Lunar Beauty
Author / PoetW H Auden
TagsIllusion, Love

This lunar beauty
Has no history
Is complete and early,
If beauty later
Bear any feature
It had a lover
And is another.

This like a dream
Keeps other time
And daytime is
The loss of this,
For time is inches
And the heart’s changes
Where ghost has haunted
Lost and wanted.

But this was never
A ghost’s endeavor
Nor finished this,
Was ghost at ease,
And till it pass
Love shall not near
The sweetness here
Nor sorrow take
His endless look.

W H Auden
W H Auden
21 Feb 1907 - 29 Sep 1973
Region: British, Northern Europe
Period: Contemporary, Modernist
Movement: Modernism
Awards: National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Funeral BluesDespair, Elegy, Loss
45 Mercy StreetBeacon, Dream, Lost
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