HO! but the darkness was densely black! And young feet faltered and groped their way, With never the gleam of a star, alack! Nor a moonbeam's lamest ray! -- Blind of light as the blind of sight. -- And that was the night -- the night! And out of the blackness, vague and vast, And out of the dark and the dearth, behold! -- A great ripe radiance grew at last And burst like a bubble of gold, Gilding the way that the feet danced on. -- And that was the dawn -- The Dawn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT NIGHT; SONNET by AMY LOWELL GASCOIGNE'S WOODMANSHIP by GEORGE GASCOIGNE THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN FIRE & OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47 by PHILIP SIDNEY |