Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A CHILD AT A WINDOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the dark, at night, outside a little cottage door Last Line: Lit by a million suns. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood | ||||||||
I SAT in the dark, at night, outside a little cottage door, And the light from within streamed through the casement and broke in spray upon the climbing ivy-leaves. And presently, overhead, a chamber-window opened, and a child peeped silently forth, And looked up into the vast night and at the all-trembling stars. And at the same moment, in a far far globe wheeling unseen round a certain star, a child-face peeped forth from its habitation, and looked out into the night, even in the direction of the first child; And in other globes other faces looked forth; But they all shrank back and trembled, seeing nothing but vacancy, and saying, How dark, how vast, how awful is the Night! Yet all the while it was the great Day of the universe into which they looked, Lit by a million suns. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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