Enclosure – RG Poem “The Moon Ends in Nightmare”
PublicPage from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1546
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-05-06_01_enc.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – RG Poem “ The Moon Ends in Nightmare ” The Moon Ends in Nightmare I had once boasted my acquaintance With the Moon's phases: I had seen her, even, Endure and emerge from full eclipse. Yet as she stood in the West, that summer night, The fireflies dipping insanely about me, So that the foggy air quivered and winked And the sure eye was cheated, In horror I cried aloud: for the same Moon Whom I had held a living power, though changeless, Split open in my sight, a bright egg shell, And a double-headed Nothing grinned All-wisely from the rift within. the gap. At that this I found my earth no more substantial That the lower air, or the upper, And ran to plunge in the cool flowing creek, My eyes and ears pressed under water, . And there did I drowned, and left leaving my corpse in mud ? Yet still the thing was so. I crept to where my window beckoned warm Between the white oak and the tulip tree And rapped – but was denied, as who returns After a one-hour-seeming century To a house not his own.
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