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NIGHT by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME TO ME, NOT AS ONCE THOU CAMEST, NIGHT!
Last Line: TO OTHER SPHERES.
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;
COME to me, not as once thou camest, Night!
With light and splendor up the gorgeous West;
Easing the heart's rich sense of thee with sighs
Sobbed out of all emotion on Love's breast;
While the dark world waned wavering into rest,
Half seen athwart the dim delicious light
Of languid eyes:
But softly, soberly; and dark -- more dark!
Till my life's shadow lose itself in thine.
Athwart the light of slowly-gathering tears,
That come between me and the starlight, shine
From distant melancholy deeps divine,
While day slips downward through a rosy arc
To other spheres.



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