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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is the heaven of this night Last Line: For sleep is fair and warm. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime | |||
How lovely is the heaven of this night, How deadly still its earth. The forest brute Has crept into his cave, and laid himself Where sleep has made him harmless like the lamb; The horrid snake, his venom now forgot, Is still and innocent as the honied flower Under his head: -- and man, in whom are met Leopard and snake, -- and all the gentleness And beauty of the young lamb and the bud, Has let his ghost out, put his thoughts aside And lent his senses unto death himself; Whereby the king and beggar all lie down On straw or purple-tissue, are but bones And air, and blood, equal to one another And to the unborn and buried; so we go Placing ourselves among the unconceived And the old ghosts, wantonly, smilingly, For sleep is fair and warm. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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