Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STARRY NIGHT, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING First Line: I followed in the unfathomable dark Last Line: That of all things alone will not be gone. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime | ||||||||
I followed in the unfathomable dark Patterns of planets: saw the coasts of night Strewn with strange phosphor; fantasies of light In heaven's profound profusion; mistless; stark -- With mad imagination I could mark -- And printed on my inmost eye the sight Of fiery, countless fruit hung from that height On incandescent tree of blackest bark. You took my hand -- a finite act -- we stood Touching the silver infinite as one. So children, lost, bewildered in a wood Where the bright birds sing beautifully on Forget awhile the adjacent solitude, That of all things alone will not be gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN A PRESENCE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING |
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