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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAINY NIGHT, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a night for long rememberings
Last Line: Your heart will beat with hours that are gone.
Subject(s): Rain
First Line: This is a night for long rememberings
Last Line: Your heart will beat with hours that are gone.
Subject(s): Rain
This is a night for long rememberings,
Light up the fire and watch each ripening spark
Drift like a firefly where the chimney sings
With all the purple mystery of dark.
This is a night for books. Turn to a page
That throbs with Aprils that were lost, go deep
In folded letters yellowing with age;
A night of rain is not a night for sleep.
Pile up the hearth with cedar boughs and listen
To silver music flashing on the pane;
Speak long forgotten words, and they will glisten
Wrapped in their vanished Glory once again.
Turn back the clock, and till the break of dawn
Your heart will beat with hours that are gone.
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