Skyway Robbery
Night, leaning there upon the hills. What robber cloud has dared?
The great white pearl you wore, Hung from your glittering chain of stars, Is gone: And in its place a red wound drips Its anguished light.
Leonora Speyer
Night, leaning there upon the hills. What robber cloud has dared?
The great white pearl you wore, Hung from your glittering chain of stars, Is gone: And in its place a red wound drips Its anguished light.
In these lines, Night is imagined as a person leaning on the hills, wearing a great white pearl—the moon—on a chain of stars. A thief of a cloud has stolen it. The speaker asks what robber cloud dared to do this. In the moon’s place is a red wound that drips anguished light.
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