Beautiful-bosomed, O Night! with thy moon,

Move in majesty slowly to majesty lightly!

Silent as sleep, who is lulled by a delicate tune,

O'er-stroke thou the air with a languor of moonlight brightly!

Thin ice, in sockets of turquoise fastened, the stars

Gash golden the bosom of heaven with fiery scars.

Swoon down, O shadowy hosts,

O multitude ghosts,

Of the moonlight and starlight begotten!—Then swept

Whispers that sighed to me, sorrows that stealthily hovered,