Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON NIGHT, by ROBERT FERGUSSON


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First Line: Now murky shades surround the pole; / darkness lords without controul
Last Line: That fall upon the drooping yews.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Stars; Supernatural; Bedtime


Now murky shades surround the pole;
Darkness lords without controul;
To the notes of buzzing owl
Lions roar, and tygers howl,
Fright'ning from their azure shrine
Stars that wont in orbs to shine:
Now the sailor's storm-tost bark
Knows no blest celestial mark,
While, in the briny troubled deep,
Dolphins change their sport for sleep:
Ghosts, and frightful spectres gaunt,
Church-yards' dreary footsteps haunt,
And brush, with wither'd arms, the dews
That fall upon the drooping yews.





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