Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ELDRICH DARK, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Last Line: Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime | ||||||||
Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Closes with night's accomplished certainty, A wizard wind goes crying eerily; And in the glade unsteady shadows crawl, Timed to the trees, whose voices rear and fall As with some dreadful witches' ecstasy, Flung upward to the dark, whence glitters free The crooked moon, impendent over all. Twin veils of covering cloud and silence thrown Across the movement and the sound of things, Make blank the night, till in the broken west The moon's ensanguined blade awhile is shown. . . . The night grows whole again. . . . The shadows rest, Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN AUTUMN ORCHARDS by CLARK ASHTON SMITH MEMNON AT MIDNIGHT; TO MR. ALBERT M. BENDER by CLARK ASHTON SMITH |
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