Nature
Look Down Fair Moon
From Leaves of Grass
Nature
Look down fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Look Down Fair Moon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/173/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Look Down Fair Moon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/173/.
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