Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EASTER NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL


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First Line: All night had shout of men and cry
Last Line: He rose again behind the stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection


ALL night had shout of men and cry
Of woeful women filled His way;
Until that noon of sombre sky
On Friday, clamour and display
Smote Him; no solitude had He,
No silence, since Gethsemane.

Public was Death; but Power, but Might,
But Life again, but Victory,
Were hushed within the dead of night,
The shutter'd dark, the secrecy.
And all alone, alone, alone
He rose again behind the stone.





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