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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT, by HERMANN HESSE Poet's Biography
First Line: Often this thought wakens me unawares
Last Line: Speaks at this hour my name within her heart.
First Line: Often this thought wakens me unawares
Last Line: Speaks at this hour my name within her heart.
OFTEN this thought wakens me unawares,
That through the chill of night a vessel fares
Seeking an ocean, touching on a shore
For which my soul must yearn forevermore;
That in still places which no sailor knows
A crimson, undiscovered Northlight glows,
That an unknown and lovely lady's arm
Pulses amid the pillows white and warm;
That one long destined to become my friend
Finds in an alien sea a somber end,
And that my mother, strange and far apart,
Speaks at this hour my name within her heart.
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