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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WORLD'S DEATH-NIGHT, by JAMES CHAPMAN WOODS First Line: I think a stormless night-time shall cause Last Line: Girdled with gracious watchings of the stars. | |||
I THINK a stormless night-time shall ensue Unto the world, yearning for hours of calm: Not these the end, -- nor sudden-closing palm Of a God's hand beneath the skies we knew, Nor fall from a fierce heaven of fiery dew In place of the sweet dewfall, the world's balm, Nor swell of elemental triumph-psalm Round the long-buffeted bulk, rent through and through. But in the even of its endless night, With shoreless floods of moonlight on its breast, And baths of healing mist about its scars, An instant sums its circling years of flight, And the tir'd earth hangs crystall'd into rest, Girdled with gracious watchings of the stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SOUL STITHY by JAMES CHAPMAN WOODS NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEP by SARA TEASDALE OUR GOOD PRESIDENT by PHOEBE CARY CROTALUS by FRANCIS BRET HARTE |
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