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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MISERABLE NIGHT, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR First Line: It is raining tonight Last Line: God, how the patients cough! Subject(s): Hospitals; Rain; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life | |||
It is raining tonight, And full-leafed limbs shiver and whisper As tears slip noiselessly down dark bodies of trees And trickle cold upon their toes In soliloquized dark. Chilled cattle huddle in drowsy clumps Beneath low-shingled sheds, And listen to the close crunching of hard corn Stabled horses eat. Departing theatre guests duck to awninged shelter Of dark closed doorways, await late taxis glumly, And, wiping their wet noses, Drive, spattering, homeward. Night nurses sink deeper into wool sweaters, Collars high, and shift miserable through sanatorium halls Where shaded bulbs lend sickly light. God, how the patients cough! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL ELEGY IN A THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE by KENNETH FEARING LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE) by MARIANNE MOORE DEPRESSION DAYS (2) by PAT MORA BOY AND MOM AT THE NUTCRACKER BALLET by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EYES LIKE LEEKS by LINDA GREGERSON CONTRABAND by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR |
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