THE night breaks. The light shakes Down from the sky. The darkness trembles: shivers, dissembles: Unwilling to die. And facile and fleet, on dusky feet, Out of the dripping sunlight tripping, Shadows pass by, All sprinkled and spattered With golden rain, All shivered, all shattered, like dream-ghosts scattered By the waking brain. The light dawns. The night mourns And the stars shiver, The moon pales. The loon wails Far down the river. And strong in the might of perfect delight, Fearless and bold with its wealth of gold, Stronger than sadness, Brighter than gladness, Mad with the madness Of victory won— Above night's gloom, above life's bloom, Higher and higher, like a passioned desire, To the highest height of earth's blinded sight Rises the sun, And the battle is done. Yet afar, unforgetting, Hid by the hill, Night awaits the day's setting, Revengeful and still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO RICHARD R. WRIGHT - INSTRUCTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE PLACE OF PEACE by EDWIN MARKHAM THE DUNES OF INDIANA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SANTA FE SKETCHES by CARL SANDBURG THE LIVING STARS by GEORGE SANTAYANA ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL |