She is the beauty of the night
Basking in the moonlit skies,
And all that’s best of dark
and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Darken to predatory light
Which Heaven in daylight hours
denies.
One shade the more, one ray the
less
Would less enhance her
nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
That softly press against her face,
Which thoughts of hunger doth
express
With hope of entering my
dwelling place.
Moon shines on her cheek, and
shines on her brow
So soft, so enticing,
so eloquent,
With smiles that win, and
teeth and glow
That mutter of days in shadows
spent
She entreats for entrance and
once let in
She drinks the blood of the
innocent
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