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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STRAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late
Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation
First Line: It is late
Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation
IT is late
And the clock is striking thin hours,
But sleep has become a terror to me,
Lest I wake in the night
Bewildered,
And stretching out my arms to comfort myself with you,
Clasp instead the cold body of the darkness.
All night it will hunger over me,
And push and undulate against me,
Breathing into my mouth
And passing long fingers through my drifting hair.
Only the dawn can loose me from it,
And the gray streaks of morning melt it from my side.
Bring many candles,
Though they stab my tired brain
And hurt it.
For I am afraid of the twining of the darkness
And dare not sleep.
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