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NIGHT by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALL FROM THE LIGHT OF THE SWEET MOON
Last Line: SIGHS, AND HIS SOFT AIRS FLOW.
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;

All from the light of the sweet moon
Tired men now lie abed;
Actionless, full of visions, soon
Vanishing, soon sped.

The starry night aflock with beams
Of crystal light scarce stirs:
Only its birds -- the cocks, the streams,
Call 'neath heaven's wanderers.

All's silent; all hearts still;
Love, cunning, fire, fallen low:
When faint morn straying on the hill
Sighs, and his soft airs flow.



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