Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FEBRUARY NOCTURNE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING


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FEBRUARY NOCTURNE, by                    
First Line: For me there is a secret on the western slope.
Last Line: You who have left my heart pines and the stars?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): February; Night; Stars; Bedtime


For me there is a secret on the western slope,
Where the last pine has stabbed the sunset through
And that slow red still drips upon the dark;
For me there is companioning along the skyey plain
When no sound is, save little hurried feet of stars
Homing before the barking wind.

Night is a sheath for that stript blade.
Night is a kennel for old shepherd Wind.
Night must be hearth for me and my remembered dead:

(No nearer can they come, in these dim later years,
Than on this fringe of hills in winter dusk . . .
And I, alone in this desolate dreamy valley,
Am one with its drift of reminiscential snows.)
O Dear-and-Gone, in vain I reach and call --
Or have you heard? Beyond the silence of the steep,
Listening across this twilit frontier of the world,
You who have left my heart pines and the stars?





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