Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow
Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!"
Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime


In the night wood between the nether glow
Of the evening star and the lake,
A whippoorwill cries his name
Over and over again without shame,
As if the utmost meaning of life were in it.
The cool slender crescent of the moon,
Ready to sink under the earth soon,
Should hush him with its quiet mystery,
Or the silent immortality of the stars should
But, seeming to think it is the world's sole duty
To hear whatever he says of love and beauty,
He cries on -- the passion in his breast
Demanding to be heard without rest.
Yet what he cries, loud and long and shrill,
Is only -- "Whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!"





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