One still dark night I sat alone and wrote: So still it was that distant Chanticleer Seemed to cry out his warning at my ear, Save for the brooding echo in his throat. Sullen I sat, when like the nightwind's note A voice said, "Wherefore doth he weep and fear? Doth he not know no cry to God is dumb?" Another spoke: "His heart is dimmed and drowned With grief." I knew the shape that bended then To kiss me, when suddenly I once again Across the watches of the starless gloom Heard the cock scream and pause: the morning bell Into the gulfs of night dropped One! The vision fell And left me listening to the sinking sound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WISE WOMAN by SARA TEASDALE A GOODNIGHT by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ONE WAY OF LOVE by ROBERT BROWNING WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |