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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEP, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights without sleep and days Last Line: In an hour of ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness | |||
Nights without sleep and days That burn like smoldering fire, Nerves with the ceaseless cry Of wind in a tight-drawn wire -- Years of this leaving me nothing But a handful of songs like these, That people think were happily written In an hour of ease. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903 by NORMAN DUBIE THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER by NORMAN DUBIE JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION by DONALD REVELL |
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