Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET'S JOURNAL: MORNING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: Along the east, where late the dark impended Last Line: The freedom of the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Morning; Night; Tears; Bedtime | ||||||||
ALONG the east, where late the dark impended, A dusky gleam is born: The watches of the night are ended, And heaven foretells the morn! The hills of home, no longer hurled together, In one wide blotch of night, Lift up their heads through misty ether, Distinct in rising light. Then, after pangs of darkness slowly dying, O'er the delivered world Comes Morn, with every banner flying And every sail unfurled! So long the night, so chill, so blank and dreary, I thought the sun was dead; But yonder burn his beacons cheery On peaks of cloudy red: And yonder fly his scattered golden ar rows, And smite the hills with day, While Night her vain dominion narrows And westward wheels away. A sweeter air revives the new creation, The dews are tears of bliss, And Earth, in amorous palpitation, Receives her bridegroom's kiss. Eathed in the morning, let my heart surrender The doubts that darkness gave, And rise to meet the advancing splendor -- O Night! no more thy slave. I breathe at last, thy gloomy reign forgetting, Thy weary watches done, Thy last pale star behind me setting, The freedom of the sun! | 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 BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR |
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