47. Witchery by Frank Dempster Sherman. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

47. Witchery

By Frank Dempster Sherman


OUT of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.

Is it a dream or ghost	5
Of a dream that comes to me,
Here in the twilight on the coast,
Blue cinctured by the sea?

Fashioned of foam and froth—
And the dream is ended soon,	10
And lo, whence came the moon-white moth
Comes now the moth-white moon!