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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLANK MISGIVINGS OF A CREATURE MOVING ABOUT IN WORLDS NOT REALIZED: 7, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Roused by importunate knocks
Last Line: For watching and for thought bestowed is gone.
First Line: Roused by importunate knocks
Last Line: For watching and for thought bestowed is gone.
----Roused by importunate knocks
I rose, I turned the key, and let them in,
First one, anon another, and at length
In troops they came; for how could I, who once
Had let in one, nor looked him in the face,
Show scruples e'er again? So in they came,
A noisy band of revellers, -- vain hopes,
Wild fancies, fitful joys; and there they sit
In my heart's holy place, and through the night
Carouse, to leave it when the cold grey dawn
Gleams from the East, to tell me that the time
For watching and for thought bestowed is gone.
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