ARABESQUE

Like arabesques of ebony,

The cypresses, in silhouette,

Fantastically cleave and fret

A moon of yellow ivory.

The coldly colored rays illume

A leafy pattern manifold,

And all the field is overscrolled

With curiously figured gloom.

Like arabesques of ebony,

Or like Arabian lattices,

Forever seem the cypresses

Before a moon of ivory.