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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Recitation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The park is filled with night and fog Last Line: Why am I crying after love? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple | |||
The park is filled with night and fog, The veils are drawn about the world, The drowsy lights along the paths Are dim and pearled. Gold and gleaming the empty streets, Gold and gleaming the misty lake, The mirrored lights like sunken swords, Glimmer and shake. Oh, is it not enough to be Here with this beauty over me? My throat should ache with praise, and I Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. O, beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love, With youth, a singing voice, and eyes To take earth's wonder with surprise? Why have I put off my pride, Why am I unsatisfied, -- I, for whom the pensive night Binds her cloudy hair with light, -- I, for whom all beauty burns Like incense in a million urns? O beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...READY FOR THE CANNERY by BERTON BRALEY TRANTER IN AMERICA by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV ON 52ND STREET by PHILIP LEVINE THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK by JOSEPHINE MILES NEW YORK SUBWAY by HILDA MORLEY |
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