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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING NIGHT, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL First Line: Pale moon-shafts strike the swiftly greening hills Last Line: Nor be engulfed in fierce red fire of day! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime | |||
Pale moon-shafts strike the swiftly greening hills, Here winds a luring flower-fragrant path; Let us be brave and dare the pigmy wrath Of tiny wood folk. Sparkling silver spills In ever widening, always shimmering rills; O, I would see it softly garment you, Turn your bright eyes to dancing flames, ice-blue, Wrap you about till mystic beauty fills My vision with supreme exquisiteness. Humbly I stand before your moon-wrought grace, The fragile pureness of your hands I press, And touch in reverence your white rose face. O tender, shining hour, would you might stay, Nor be engulfed in fierce red fire of day! | 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 BITTER CHOICE by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL |
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