Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE NIGHT, by AMY LEVY Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel? I think there never was a cheating Last Line: My arms across the silence and the shade. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime | ||||||||
CRUEL? I think there never was a cheating More cruel, thro' all the weary days than this ! This is no dream, my heart kept on repeating, But sober certainty of waking bliss. Dreams? O, I know their faces -- goodly seeming, Vaporous, whirled on many-coloured wings ; I have had dreams before, this is no dreaming, But daylight gladness that the daylight brings. What ails my love ; what ails her ? She is paling ; Faint grows her face, and slowly seems to fade ! I cannot clasp her -- stretch out unavailing My arms across the silence and the shade. | 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 A LONDON PLANE-TREE by AMY LEVY EPITAPH (ON A COMMONPLACE PERSON WHO DIED IN BED) by AMY LEVY |
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