Baby Face
Baby Face - meaning Summary
Moonlight and Tender Protection
The poem addresses the moon as a gentle presence centered on a sleeping child. It describes moonlight moving across a bedside and spreading over the landscape, softening harsh shapes into silvered shadows. The speaker asks the moon to preserve some of that beauty and light for the girl by the window, invoking a quiet wish for protection, comfort, and the sustaining power of a serene nightly luminance.
Read Complete AnalysesWhite moon comes in on a baby face. The shafts across her bed are flimmering. Out on the land White Moon shines, Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows, All silver to slow twisted shadows Falling across the long road that runs from the house. Keep a little of your beauty And some of your flimmering silver For her by the window to-night Where you come in, White Moon.
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