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A WINTER NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS A CHILLY WINTER'S NIGHT
Last Line: WERE LEFT IN LONELINESS BEHIND.
Subject(s): NIGHT; SOLITUDE; WINTER; BEDTIME; LONELINESS;
It was a chilly winter's night;
And frost was glitt'ring on the ground,
And evening stars were twinkling bright;
And from the gloomy plain around
Came no sound,
But where, within the wood-girt tow'r,
The churchbell slowly struck the hour;
As if that all of human birth
Had risen to the final day,
And soaring from the wornout earth
Were called in hurry and dismay,
Far away;
And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.




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