How goes the night? Midnight has still to come. Down in the court the torch is blazing bright; I hear far off the throbbing of the drum. How goes the night? The night is not yet gone. I hear the trumpets blowing on the height; The torch is paling in the coming dawn. How goes the night? The night is past and done. The torch is smoking in the morning light, The dragon banner floating in the sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTLEY: THE GHOST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE POET AND HIS SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WOODNOTES: 2 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITOR WHEDON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE by MARGARET AVISON |