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VERSES FOR PICTURES: NIGHT by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)

Poet Analysis

First Line: I AM NIGHT: I BRING AGAIN
Last Line: MY FRUITFUL SILENCE QUICKENETH.
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;

I am Night: I bring again
Hope of pleasure, rest from pain:
Thoughts unsaid 'twixt Life and Death
My fruitful silence quickeneth.



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