Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOURTH NIGHT, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON


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FOURTH NIGHT, by                    
First Line: Escape the towers of the night
Last Line: I know of what heat brings.
Subject(s): Future Life; Night; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime


Escape the towers of the night,
The high and topless towers;
And make a sacrifice of light
On altars of black flowers,
For only death has certain sight
And only mind still cowers.

The Things that gibber ever, creep
In fear about the spaces
Of silence and the empty deep.
Eternity still races
Along the emptiness. Still sleep
The unfamiliar faces.

And I would know the warmth of ice,
The warmth of frozen things.
O Lazarus! By what device
Bore you the heat that springs
Forever from your heart? Suffice
I know of what heat brings.





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