Moth Poems

Moth Poems

Nightfall, by George Sterling

Pure and argent, westward far,
Burns a solit...

The Norman Baron, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In his chamber, weak and dying,
Was the Norm...

Song of the Cricket, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

When the Summer moonlight evening, weird, fan...

Song of the Easter Lilies, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

The Lilies of Easter awake and sing,
They ris...

Atlas Moth, by Pascale Petit

From The Treekeper's Tale This giant atlas mot...

To----, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

One word is too often profaned
For me to profa...

Under the Sands, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Suggested by a notice of Sir Douglas Forsyth's ...

The Desire of the Moth, by Rose Terry Cooke

Golden-colored miller,
Leave the lamp, and f...

Exogenesis, by Rose Terry Cooke

The curving beach and shining bay,
Stretch fr...

Monotropa, by Rose Terry Cooke

Loves serene, uncarnate Graces!
Born of pure ...

To a Stranger, by Ruth Thomas Pickering

I have seen you arise and go forth in the night...

The Song of Wandering Aengus, by William Butler Yeats

I went out to the hazel wood,   Because a fire ...