Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN THE NIGHT, by AMY LEVY



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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.







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