Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE



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First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace
Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore!
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


THE spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace
To sleep the swaying branches slowly woo;
The still birds drowse in dew; the foaming fleece
Is gold with star-beams on the waters blue.

Soft mist hides all the mountain tracks and swathes
The plunging gullies and the peaks that soar;
The sad moon in her light the foliage bathes
And sounds of human-kind are heard no more.

But on the pebbles sings the unsullied surge,
The deep voice of the forest doth intone;
The thrilled air bears sea-song and forest-dirge
Up to the night upon her star-lit throne.

Mount upward holy murmur, divine speech,
Be Earth's low tidings unto Heav'n upborne,
And ask the serene stars if we may reach
Their thrones by an eternal pathway worn.

Earth's holy orison of wood and wave
Thou hast consoled me in dark days of yore;
Me from my barren sorrow thou didst save
And in my heart thou singest evermore!





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