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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry
Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime
First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry
Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime
WHEN chirping crickets fainter cry,
And pale stars blossom in the sky,
And twilight's gloom has dimmed the bloom
And blurred the butterfly:
When locust-blossoms fleck the walk,
And up the tiger-lily stalk
The glowworm crawls and clings and falls
And glimmers down the garden-walls:
When buzzing things, with double wings
Of crisp and raspish flutterings,
Go whizzing by so very nigh
One thinks of fangs and stings: --
O then, within, is stilled the din
Of crib she rocks the baby in,
And heart and gate and latch's weight
Are lifted -- and the lips of Kate.
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