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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIDNIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime | |||
THE last-lighted windows have darkened, The last courting pair have gone home; And moon and wind and the little shriek-owl All over the country roam. The chimneys and roofs of the village Like a mystical figure are drawn On a cloud's white veil that sleeps and shines From the church to the sign of the Swan. Between blue and silver the by-road Runs, hides and again gleams free; The moon seems loitering, like the wind That kisses the hawthorn tree. Far glistens that tree in the meadow, But the spirit of love hither borne In glimmerings and sighings, O can such a joy Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? | 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 ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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