Nature
A Moonrise
From In This Our World (1893; 5th ed. 1914)
Nature
The heavy mountains, lying huge and dim,
With uncouth outline breaking heaven’s brim;
And while I watched and waited, o’er them soon,
Cloudy, enormous, spectral, rose the moon.
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MLA
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “A Moonrise.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/75/.
Chicago
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “A Moonrise.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/75/.
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