Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAST NIGHT, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS


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First Line: Last night I heard the winds rejoice
Last Line: Mewed up in the streets of towns.
Subject(s): Friendship


LAST night I heard the winds rejoice
In Sussex on the downs,
And hearkened to the friendly voice
Of one who loves not towns.
I sat with open eyes and saw
The dawn tear wide the sky and draw
The smoke from red-tiled cottages,
The mist from out the trees.

The harvest and the smoke, the tang
Of spindrift from the sea,
Was sweet to breathe in the wind that sang
Over the downs to me.
I closed my eyes and they shouldered there
Above Greatham fields and the chalk road bare
With the heather a purple flame between,
Just as it ought to be.

Last night I heard the wind rejoice,
I heard him on the downs,
Though I was far from his friendly voice,
Mewed up in the streets of towns.





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