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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HESPERUS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the street the last late hansoms go
Last Line: Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime
First Line: Down in the street the last late hansoms go
Last Line: Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime
DOWN in the street the last late hansoms go
Still westward, but with backward eyes of red
The harlot shuffles to her lonely bed;
The tall policeman pauses but to throw
A flash into the empty portico;
Then he too passes, and his lonely tread
Links all the long-drawn gas-lights on a thread
And ties them to one planet swinging low.
O Hesperus! O happy star! to bend
O'er Helen's bosom in the trancèd west—
To watch the hours heave by upon her breast
And at her parted lip for dreams attend:
If dawn defraud thee, how shall I be deem'd,
Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed?
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