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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poet's Biography
First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain
Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime
First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain
Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime
A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain
Came to me out of the mist.
I rose and answered that cry again,
But it went sobbing over the plain
And died into the mist.
And where it had been came the scent of flowers
Out of a world's distress,
With a moan of gathered thunder-showers
And a gasping loneliness.
And the gods with their faces wet with crying,
The old gods strange and wild,
Swept out upon us across the night,
And -- oh mystery, mystery infinite!
The gods and the weeping child and I
Laughed and kissed in ecstasy!
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