A SOLAR ECLIPSE
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In that great journey of the stars through space
About the mighty, all-directing Sun,
The pallid, faithful Moon, has been the one
Companion of the Earth. Her tender face,
Pale with the swift, keen purpose of that race,
Which at Time’s natal hour was first begun,
Shines ever on her lover as they run
And lights his orbit with her silvery smile.
Sometimes such passionate love doth in her rise,
Down from her beaten path she softly slips,
And with her mantle veils the Sun’s bold eyes,
Then in the gloaming finds her lover’s lips.
While far and near the men our world call wise
See only that the Sun is in eclipse.
(Today’s poem is in the public domain, belongs to the masses, and appears here today accordingly.)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on in Johnstown, Wisconsin in 1850. She was a popular writer characterized mainly by her upbeat and optimistic poetry, though she was also an activist and a teacher of the occult. She died in Connecticut in 1919. (Bio courtesy of The Academy of American Poets.)
Editor’s Note: When the moon meets the sun in a lover’s embrace, what do men see? “only that the Sun is in eclipse,” according to today’s poet. A little sun-moon love, with a healthy dose of questioning perspective, in honor of this week’s solar eclipse.
As It Ought To Be 
An alternative? A poem about a lunar eclipse. Rather humbler but love remains its core.( And the blindness of mankind)
https://philipparees.me/2017/08/22/a-eclipse-i-made-earlier/
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Such grace in this poem. Where you see the moon as the Sun’s lover, I see her as Earth’s, veiling the Sun’s rays for a darkened kiss. Lovely either way. Thanks for posting.
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