Nature

Move Eastward, Happy Earth

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809–1892

From Poems (1843)

Nature

Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet, eastward go;
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister-world, and rise
To glass herself in dewy eyes
That watch me from the glen below.

Ah, bear me with thee, lightly borne,
Dip forward under starry light,
And move me to my marriage-morn,
And round again to happy night.

MLA

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Move Eastward, Happy Earth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/285/.

Chicago

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Move Eastward, Happy Earth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/285/.

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