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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AND IS IT NIGHT?, by ANONYMOUS First Line: And is it night? Are they thine eyes that shine? Last Line: O dearest life! Joy's sweet! O sweetest love! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime | |||
And is it night? are they thine eyes that shine? Are we alone, and here? and here, alone? May I come near, may I but touch thy shrine? Is jealousy asleep, and is he gone? O Gods, no more! silence my lips with thine! Lips, kisses, joys, hap, -- blessings most divine! Oh, come, my dear! Our griefs are turned to night, And night to joys; night blinds pale envy's eyes; Silence and sleep prepare us our delight; Oh, cease we then our woes, our griefs, our cries: Oh, vanish words! words do but passions move; O dearest life! joy's sweet! O sweetest love! | 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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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