To-night
The moon is a curving flower of gold, The sky is still and blue; The moon was made for the sky to hold, And I for you.
The moon is a flower without a stem, The sky is luminous; Eternity was made for them, To-night for us.
Sara Teasdale
The moon is a curving flower of gold, The sky is still and blue; The moon was made for the sky to hold, And I for you.
The moon is a flower without a stem, The sky is luminous; Eternity was made for them, To-night for us.
Sara Teasdale’s “To-night” places a quiet moment of love under a luminous evening sky. The speaker sees a golden, flower-like moon hanging in the still blue air and reads it as a sign of natural belonging: the sky was made to hold the moon, just as the speaker feels made for the beloved.
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