Malay Song

The Stars await, serene and white,

The unarisen moon;

Oh, come and stay with me to-night,

Beside the salt Lagoon!

My hut is small, but as you lie,

You see the lighted shore,

And hear the rippling water sigh

Beneath the pile-raised floor.

No gift have I of jewels or flowers,

My room is poor and bare:

But all the silver sea is ours,

And all the scented air

Blown from the mainland, where there grows

Th’ “Intriguer of the Night,”

The flower that you have named Tube rose,

Sweet scented, slim, and white.

The flower that, when the air is still

And no land breezes blow,

From its pale petals can distil

A phosphorescent glow.

I see your ship at anchor ride;

Her “captive lightning” shine.

Before she takes to-morrow’s tide,

Let this one night be mine!

Though in the language of your land

My words are poor and few,

Oh, read my eyes, and understand,

I give my youth to you!

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• Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Skies by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Living Lost by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Constellations by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• October by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant

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