Winters for a Summer Night

[rejectomorph]

MOONRISE

  The slow moon draws
The shadows through the leaves.
  The change it weaves
Eludes design or pause.

  And here we wait
In moon a little space,
   And face to face
We know the hour grows late.

  We turn from sleep
And hold our breath a while,
  As mile on mile
The terror drifts more deep.

  So we must part
In ruin utterly—
  Reality
Invades the crumbling heart.

  We scarce shall weep
For what no change retrieves.
  The moon and leaves
Shift here and there toward sleep.

—by Yvor Winters

Comments

[dferahgo.livejournal.com]

That is incredibly pretty.... I love the imagery, and the title just drew me in. Thank you. ^.^

[ivyfromtheash.livejournal.com]

How do you get LJ to retain the formatting of the poem... ususally between writing the post and viewing the post, the extra spacing and tabbing are deleted.


thanks.

-jaysmumsmasher

[rejectomorph]

There's an HTML tag you can use: < pre > (close the gaps between the characters.) Everything you type between the tag and the corresponding closing tag (< /pre >)will be rendered on the page exactly as it is typed- or it should be. I've found that the Visions LJ client screws it up, so I just update from the web interface when I want to use the pre tag. I don't know if Semagic or any of the other LJ clients would work better than Visions.