Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REQUIESCAT, by WILLARD WATTLES Poet's Biography First Line: I will go out to the night and the wind Last Line: Out in the wind and rain. Subject(s): Night; Rain; Bedtime | ||||||||
I will go out to the night and the wind And the clean rain coming down, For the walls of the sky are not unkind As the gray walls of a town. I will go out to the high hill And a cleft beneath a pine; In the heart of a rock it is dry and still And the heart of the rock is mine. I will go out with a cloak close drawn, With the cool rain in my face; And my pillow by night shall be a stone In a strangely quiet place. And I will not care if the rain come down, Or if the night be chill, For I shall have left the gray-walled town On feet forever still. I will go out by myself alone To the dark night and the sky Till I am a brother to the stone, Mingled inseparably. Into my breast let the good rain seep Soothing as a prayer; The arbutus will remember and creep Out of my tangled hair. When my two hands and my two feet Quiet at last shall lie, I shall not know if the rain be sweet With my face to the open sky. The night shall come like an emperor's pall, The dawn like a crimson stain . . . I rise tonight for my coronal Out in the wind and rain. | 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 |
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