Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOOD-NIGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: Good-night, sweet year, that brought to me
Last Line: And all the shadows flee away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year


GOOD-NIGHT, sweet year, that brought to me
Dear friends to love, rare wealth to hold,
That gave me flowers for memory
More precious far than fleeting gold.
Good-night, sweet year, wherein I read
Full many a page with rare delight;
Thy latest hour will soon have fled
Oh, pleasant year, sweet year, good-night!

Good-night, sad year, that reft away
Some hopes I cherished; gave the pain
Of disillusion; dimmed the day
With wrecks of labor wrought in vain.
Good-night, sad year, that sometime knew
My pillow wet with bitter tears,
Good-night, sad year, that drifteth too
Far hence on Time's black sea of years.

Good-night, blithe year, that to the home
Came smiling with so gay a face,
Bade roses bloom in hall and room,
Sent small feet pattering through the place,
That woke such bells of melody
As touch the eternal chords that ring
Where evermore the ransomed be
And saints for aye behold the King.

Good-night, brave year, that gave me strength,
And helped my will to overcome
In struggles, where the foe, at length
Baffled and beaten, left me dumb,
Yet thrilling with victorious song!
Good-night, brave year! I fain would keep
Thy secret still to right the wrong,
But thou art weary. Rest and sleep.

Good-night, O year, most sorrowful
Seen from the earth side, ache and loss
And clouded dawns, and dear ones gone,
Have deeply stamped thee with the cross.
Good-night, O sorrowful, sweet year,
Sweet with the promise of the day,
Where heaven's own morning shall appear
And all the shadows flee away.





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