Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SHOT AT NIGHT, by IDELLA PURNELL


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First Line: A shot rings out upon the dreaming night
Last Line: Men turn in beds. A wind like weeping stirs.
Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Night; Bedtime


A shot rings out upon the dreaming night.
Night shivers to pieces like a broken vase;
The stars are spangled on the sky like lace;
The moon is shedding a terrible cold light;
And, like the crystal running of a stream
Of water flowing from a broken jar,
Fear creeps across the earth, and every star
Stops moving, and a moment dulls the gleam.
Of the ivory moon. The rustling boughs of trees
Are silent, and a rare and breathless chill
Falls on the world, and makes it very still.
Then the cocks crow, a watchdog barks ill ease
And is chorused by a hundred yapping curs.
Men turn in beds. A wind like weeping stirs.





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