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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE DARK, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL First Line: Restless, tonight, and ill at ease Last Line: To breathe and blossom in the dark! Subject(s): Night | |||
RESTLESS, to-night, and ill at ease, And finding every place too strait, I leave the porch shut in with trees, And wander through the garden-gate. So dark at first, I have to feel My way before me with my hands; But soul-like fragrances reveal My virgin Daphne, where she stands. Her stars of blossom breathe aloft Her worship to the stars above; In wavering pulsations soft, Climbs the sweet incense of her love; Those far, celestial eyes can dart Their glances down through leafy bars; The spark that burns within her heart Was dropped, in answer, from the stars. She does not find the space too small, The night too dark, for sweetest bloom; Content within the garden wall, Since upward there is always room. Her spotless heart, through all the night, Holds safe its little vestal spark. O blessed, if the soul be white, To breathe and blossom in the dark! | 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 |
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