Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FALSE MORNING, by AMORY HARE Poet's Biography First Line: Low in the west the pitiless sun dies Last Line: The long hours when the night and I were mute! Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Evening; Morning; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime | ||||||||
Low in the West the pitiless sun dies; The hills withdraw into the mist, to sleep, And stars unnumbered swarm across the skies Above the fugitive brown bats that cheep Weakly on aimless wings. The Night descends And draws a pendulous sable sleeve across Earth's wrinkled face. The deepening darkness lends Texture to compensate for color's loss. No breeze, no sound -- 'til suddenly the hush Is broken by the shrill call of a bird Dreaming of Dawn, who wakes his fellow-thrush, Then folds the wings some ghost of Morning stirred. Strange that so small a sound could so refute The long hours when the Night and I were mute! | 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 |
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