Luna

Erik Johan Stagnelius 1793 (Öland) – 1823 (Stockholm)



Deep slumber hung o'er sea and hill and plain;
     With pale pink cheek fresh from her watery caves
     Slow rose the moon out of the midnight waves,
Like Venus out of ocean born again.
Olympian blazed she on the dark blue main;
      'So shall, ye gods,' — hark how my weak hope raves! —
      'My happy star ascend the sea that laves
Its shores with grief, and silence all my pain!'
With that there sighed a wandering midnight breeze
High up among the topmost tufted trees,
     And o'er the moon's face blew a veil of cloud;
And in the breeze my genius spake, and said,
'While thy heart stirred, thy glimmering hope has fled,
     And like the moon lies muffled in a shroud.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBCABBADDEFFE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 679
Words 128
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Erik Johan Stagnelius

Erik Johan Stagnelius was born October 14, 1793 in Gärdslösa, on the island Öland, Sweden, and died on April 3, 1823 in Stockholm. He was a Romantic poet and playwright. 1810 to 1840 was a blossoming time in Swedish poetry, and there were several writers of distinguished merit, among them Esaias Tegnér, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom and Erik Johan Stagnelius. The brief and mysterious life and death of Erik Johan Stagnelius have given a romantic interest to all that is connected with his name. more…

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