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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIDNIGHT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: From where I sit, I see the stars
Last Line: That crying in the dark.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: From where I sit, I see the stars
Last Line: That crying in the dark.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
From where I sit, I see the stars,
And down the chilly floor
The moon between the frozen bars
Is glimmering dim and hoar.
Without in many a peakéd mound
The glinting snowdrifts lie;
There is no voice or living sound;
The embers slowly die.
Yet some wild thing is in mine ear;
I hold my breath and hark;
Out of the depth I seem to hear
A crying in the dark;
No sound of man or wife or child,
No sound of beast that groans,
Or of the wind that whistles wild,
Or of the tree that moans:
I know not what it is I hear;
I bend my head and hark:
I cannot drive it from mine ear,
That crying in the dark.
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