Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOCTURNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON


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First Line: I dream you are the moon's most favoured child
Last Line: The silences that brood around the stars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


I DREAM you are the moon's most favoured child,
Since only in the night you come to me,
Quintessence of the darkness, strange and wild,
Nocturnal phantom, indolent and free.

Gliding upon the moon's blue-silver ray,
You visit me despite my prison bars;
Within my soul you leave at dawn of day
The silences that brood around the stars.





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