August’s Poem

‘Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,

But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.

And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.

This wonderfully evocative poem “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight” is by Emily Bronte, who was one of the famous literary sisters.

 

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This beautiful image to go with the poem is “The Fishing Party” (1850) by Fitz Henry Lane

 

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