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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poet's Biography
First Line: An odorous shade lingers the fair day's ghost
Last Line: Yea, and with more abiding memories fraught.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: An odorous shade lingers the fair day's ghost
Last Line: Yea, and with more abiding memories fraught.
Subject(s): Memory
AN odorous shade lingers the fair day's ghost,
And the frail moon now by no wind is tost,
And shadow-laden scents of tree and grass
Build up again a world our eyes have lost.
Now all the wood is but a murmured light
Where leaf on leaf falls softly from the height;
The hidden freshness of the river seems
A breath that mingles with the breath of night.
And time and shade and silence seem to say,
Close now your eyes nor fear to die with day;
For if the daylight win to earth again,
Will not its beauty also find a way?
And flower and stream and forest, will they not
Bring back to-morrow, as to-day they brought,
This shadow-hidden scent—this odorous shade?
Yea, and with more abiding memories fraught.
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