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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BEDTIME Matches Found: 1086 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'TIS MIDNIGHT, AND THE SETTING SUN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "hilarious, leap from bough to bough" Subject(s): Night;nonsense; Bedtime "TEDDY BEAR, TEDDY BEAR", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Say good night Subject(s): Night; Bedtime 3 A.M, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night has an entity, a shape Last Line: Her subtle footfall in the room. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A BALLADE OF THE NIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the earth the deep-descended day Last Line: Sigh in the silence of the midnight hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mourning; Night; Prayer; Silence; Bereavement; Bedtime A CHILD'S THOUGHTS AT MIDNIGHT, by ETHEL HOLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The hours go swiftly flying past Last Line: The universe to god. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A CHILLY NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose at the dead of night Last Line: And I was indeed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Mothers; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by AGNES GILES NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Lord, I will dress thy shrine with garlands gay Last Line: For those whom thou and I, dear lord, hold dear. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Night; Prayer; Nativity, The; Bedtime A CLEAR MIDNIGHT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is thy hour, o soul, thy free flight into the wordless Last Line: Night, sleep, death and the stars. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A CLEAR NIGHT, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have worn this day as a fretting, ill-made garment Last Line: This jewel caught in my hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A CONTEMPLATION ON NIGHT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether amid the gloom of night I stray Last Line: But thou, o god, for ever shine the same. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A DARK MONTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month without sight of the sun Last Line: And the stars all night exult with us, hearing of joy that shall come with june. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Seasons; Sun; Bedtime A DARK NIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I long to pull the old man in Last Line: How dark it is; how far I am from shore. Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A DOS'T O' BLUES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got no patience with blues at all! Last Line: He's the same old color yit! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Night; Seasons; Bedtime A FLEETING GUEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the foul arch of night Last Line: Into a tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A GIRL'S SONGS: 2, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My watch beneath my pillow white Last Line: And there are stars past the window-sill. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Night; Watches; Bedtime A GOODNIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to sleep - though of course you will not Last Line: And the night passes -- and never passes -- Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary day rins down and dies Last Line: The graves wherein we lie. Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime A LITANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bright lights of heaven Last Line: O lord our god. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Light; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime A LULLABY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've wandered all about the upland fallows Last Line: Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the stars are shooting. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime A MAY NIGHT, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is rising! With one more breath / gasping Last Line: The image of eternal peace is seen. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I said Last Line: The christ–soul of the universe to shine. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Meditation; Night; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime A MIDNIGHT SUN EPISODE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southward, gray peaks rise flecked with snow Last Line: Our golden day in glory ends. Subject(s): Night; Sun; Bedtime A MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long day wanes, the broad fields Last Line: This toilworn earth into a heaven of rest. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime A NIGHT OF NIGHTS, by NAN ASHTON GLENN Poem Text First Line: Tall silver poplars stand against a sky of blue Last Line: And this is just a night of nights when one is glad he lives. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A NIGHT OF TERROR, 1870, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They woke me up, for my small eyes were tight Last Line: And, on the night of terror, childhood ceased! Subject(s): Night; Terror; War; Bedtime A NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got home late and drank most Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime A NIGHT PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay awake by my good wife's side Last Line: Above the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs A NIGHT-PICTURE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A groan from a dim-lit upper room Last Line: The law's long arm has reached its foe. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Night; Bedtime A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A NIGHT: LATER, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: The night with its queer, dark noises Last Line: And the clouds roll by, ever new. Subject(s): Clouds; Night; Bedtime A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A NOCTURNE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O maiden moon, o tender rim of light Last Line: And round the circle of your mortal fate. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime A PARTY, by NANCY ELLEN FINCH Poem Text First Line: The lady night will entertain Last Line: To shine their dullish noses. Subject(s): Night; Parties; Stars; Bedtime A PRAIRIE SUNSET, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling Last Line: Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A PRELUDE OF NIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the waters far there came Last Line: "to her dark-sheltered breast." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND, by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and night Last Line: Of quiet whispering to the ear of night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Silence; Westmorland, England; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime A ROMANCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A calm, delightful autumn night Last Line: A wild, delirious autumn night! Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Dogs; Love; Moon; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SEPTEMBER NIGHT, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The full september moon sheds floods of light Last Line: I cannot sing, with loves I cannot speak. Subject(s): African Americans; Night; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Bedtime; South (u.s.) A SHOT AT NIGHT, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shot rings out upon the dreaming night Last Line: Men turn in beds. A wind like weeping stirs. Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Night; Bedtime A SICILIAN NIGHT, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, stand we here within this cactus-brake Last Line: Beat out with naked feet a saraband. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A SIGH IN THE NIGHT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet darkness, still and calm, and lonely! Last Line: Of the love and faith I used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, and the last of the plum blossoms Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 6, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night. Now a tent was pitched, and japhet sat Last Line: Nor specially a foe that means us ill.' Subject(s): Devil; God; Hearts; Night; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bedtime A SUMMER NIGHT, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her soft, cool arms extending, / night comes anew Last Line: With it might go! Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Silent the vast of night Last Line: And share my brothers' silence. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime A SUMMER'S NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is dewy as a maiden's mouth Last Line: The fireflies come stagg'ring down the dark. Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A WASTED VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couldst thou not watch with me one hour? Behold Last Line: Thou couldst not watch with me. Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Moon; Night; Wakes; Sunrise; Paradise; Bedtime A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what of the night? Last Line: Night is over and done. Subject(s): Death; Night; Watchmen; Dead, The; Bedtime A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight. Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime A WINTER NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a chilly winter's night Last Line: Were left in loneliness behind. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Winter; Bedtime; Loneliness A WINTER TWILIGHT, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale beryl sky, with clouds Last Line: Of day's keen pain away. Subject(s): Peace; Night; Bedtime A WINTER'S DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into my garden sweet and fair Last Line: And she asks how long the sun will shine. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Night; Sun; Winter; Bedtime A WINTER'S NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little cot beside the wood Last Line: The moon shall keep, the moon shall keep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake! Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A YEAR'S CAROLS: AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great august, lord of golden lands Last Line: Make night a noon where darkness dies. Subject(s): August; Night; Seasons; Bedtime ABASHED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cock crows; and behold the hidden day Last Line: His face bedewed with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Morning; Night; Bedtime ABOVE AND WITHIN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance a phalanx of black clouds Last Line: Above and within. Subject(s): Clouds; Night; Bedtime ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Last Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness ACRISIUS: NIGHT FEAR, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take courage, lady: many fearful things Last Line: That breathed dark dreams in night, by day are solaced. Subject(s): Fear; Night; Bedtime ACROSS THE BRIDGE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Away across the bridge they go Last Line: They hurry back—I wonder why! Subject(s): Night; October; Time; Bedtime AD QUINTILIANUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O chief director of the growing race Last Line: Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Night; Rome, Italy; Bedtime ADVENTURE, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Open it slowly Last Line: In memory's eyes! Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Memory; Morning; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime AFTER MIDNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark streets are deserted, Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Bedtime AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime AFTER SUNSET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west Last Line: That love's last mortal word was not his last. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; Bedtime AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AFTERWARD, by MARY MCDERMOTT Poem Text First Line: So now that the night has come, and the kindly stars Last Line: I awake from the dream of love, and am clean and whole. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime ALHAMBRA SONGS: 3. THE NIGHT OF ALMOND BLOSSOMS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The blossoms range their silver tents Last Line: I swoon amid the dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Night; Bedtime ALHAMBRA SONGS: 4. ZORAYA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: There came by night a northern cavalier Last Line: But ah, who taught it thus to sigh, alas? Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime ALONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked I stood on the soft shingle of sand Subject(s): Memory; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean AMERICAN MANHOOD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dull ache that is midnight for a boy Subject(s): Teenagers; Boys; Night; Coming Of Age; Bedtime AMORIS EXSUL: 11. ARQUES: 3. NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness fills the hollows of the moat Last Line: Hold on my shivering soul. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AN AMULET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, the cruel blow fell on his heart Last Line: An amulet of ardor and of dew. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Memory; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime AN ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat like he creeps along where Last Line: Is sorry when he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Murder; Night; Bedtime AN EVENING IN DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was while we held our races Last Line: Wade in, dandaloo!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Horses; Love; Night; Racing; Bedtime AN EVENING WALK AT CROMER, 1795, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail scene sublime! Along the eastern hills Last Line: In utterance fail, and silence I am thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Night; Walking; Bedtime AN HYMN TO THE EVENING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main Last Line: Then cease, my song, till fair aurora rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Night; Bedtime AND IS IT NIGHT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 THIS, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: And this is what my life is: hope without Last Line: I knew that nothing really was my own. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime ANIMAUX, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in an infected place Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore ANTICLIMAX, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a city street, and suddenly Last Line: Fell on a mood more merry than mine own. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Streets; Tears; Bedtime; Avenues APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean APPRIZALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I make apprizal of the maiden moon Last Line: That ever looked through eyes! Variant Title(s): Apprisals Subject(s): Eyes; Night; Soul; Bedtime APPROACH OF NIGHT, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the yellow in the sky Last Line: Night is here. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime APPROACHING NIGHT, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: The fervid heat is ebbing toward the finish of the day Last Line: While blissful hope assures us the coming of the dawn. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime AROUND THE BLOCK, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will go for a walk before Subject(s): Walking; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking ARRACK, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a sultry land of palm and rice Last Line: And dance with cobras on nude bosoms coiled! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Night; Bedtime AS NIGHT COMES, by CHARLES G. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Day silently passes, the twilight falls Last Line: To the somber robe flung down as night comes. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT A MONTH'S END, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night last night was strange and shaken Last Line: The wild-beast mark of panther's fangs. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean AT BRANDON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the ivied house the starling Last Line: Made a lover of the night. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Night; Bedtime AT CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I come in f'om de co'n-fiel' aftah wo'kin' ha'd all day Last Line: "goodnight." Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT COCK-CROW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crow! For the night has thrice denied Last Line: To weep what he has done. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime AT LAST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in Last Line: "eureka is his name -- I've found ""a boy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth; Faces; Night; Child Birth; Midwifery; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whut time 'd dat clock strike? Nine? No - eight Last Line: I reckon he'll sleep daih twell day! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We talked throughout the evening's changing light Last Line: I freely left her side and was with you. Subject(s): Night; Relationships; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home from the horizon far and clear Last Line: Your words to me, your words! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): To W.m.; Thoughts At Evening Subject(s): Birds; Language; Night; Words; Vocabulary; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The door is shut and barred upon my home Last Line: The brooding night that knows its great intent. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary! Weary! Last Line: Midnight winds, I sigh with you! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT SIX, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a distant singing, like a finger sizzling Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT TWILIGHT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: On roads of gathering dusk Last Line: And thy peace. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Rest; Bedtime AT WEEP, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't move can't speak can't think to wonder Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the black and rocky caldron Last Line: Would they take the passage-money. Subject(s): Kisses; Night; Silence; Bedtime AUGUST (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day of torpor in the sullen heat Last Line: Within the arms of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Nature; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime AUGUST NIGHT, by SARAH MIDDLETON SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Whoever once has lain Last Line: He will never fear to die. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AUGUST NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars Last Line: You said, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Night; Bedtime AULD REIKIE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld reikie, wale o' ilka toun Last Line: But gallop'd to edina's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courtesans; Day; Night; Summer; Bedtime AUTUMN EVENING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold light dies, the candles glow Last Line: But in the shadows, lo! Your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime AVATAR AND THE MANGER, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON Poem Text First Line: Tonight the desert sands / have whispered of Last Line: Have frankincense and myrrh. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AXIS [EJE], by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the conduits of blood Variant Title(s): Axis Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BABETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the dusk of the night is sweet, babette" Last Line: With a rose in your dusky hair! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;love;night;roses; Nightmares;bedtime BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE LAMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All in the woodland green, sombrely dight, wandered a king and Last Line: "mundane. . . ." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Lament; Love; Night; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE RESPONSES OF DAWN AND NIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text Last Line: -- the ivory horn of death. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Night; Sunrise; Dead, The; Bedtime BEARS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful bears that walked my room all night Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Night; Bedtime BEATEN TRACKS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: That night while we were snug abed it snowed -- Last Line: Puts our feet back in the old beaten tracks. Subject(s): Night; Snow; Bedtime BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh beautiful night, oh, beautiful night Last Line: Of those charms which the earth doth possess. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Night; Bedtime BEDTIME, by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Tis bedtime; say your hymn, and bid good night Last Line: "paid me my precious wages -- ""baby's kiss." Alternate Author Name(s): Rosslyn, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME NOW!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaves, go to bed!' said the wind thro' the trees Last Line: But the leaves were too sleepy to hear what he said! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME STORIES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, when I was a small, not Last Line: The sunlit seas to bring them dolls and christmas trees. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Night; Sleep; Bedtime BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the dark—again—again. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BEFORE BEDTIME, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps in a chimney jam Last Line: It shoots smoke through the ashes. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BEFORE TWILIGHT, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Dawn had not streaked the spacious veil of night Last Line: Expect me on the dewy lawn. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BEWILDERED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER Poem Text First Line: The blossom sere hangs on the tree Last Line: And take the half-blown rose? Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Noon; Trees; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BON-SOIR, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From / hedge / and / bank Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime BORDERLAND, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I waking, am I sleeping? Last Line: For the nights are short in june ! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BRAEMAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night from the stern I thought, as I watched Last Line: Pale bodies the sea's farness from their shore Subject(s): Sea; Night; Ocean; Bedtime BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime BROCADE SHAWL, by EDYTHE GORDON Poem Text First Line: Autumn will bring a hutch of gold Last Line: Upon the ground. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime BUSH NIGHT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On either hand Last Line: Seems right. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BY CANDELIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is winter, this is night, small love --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Candles; Night; Infants; Bedtime BY HER WHITE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By her white bed I muse a little Last Line: "would mutely plead: ""nay, lord! Let him so sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Flowers; Love; Night; Roses; Bedtime BY MORNING TWILIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, like a dying mother Last Line: With the song of the sea to the land. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CANTO 27; WA-BE-NO-KA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A night upon the battle field Last Line: And freely sheds her grateful tears. Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Night; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bedtime CARLOS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I knelt low at my lady's feet Last Line: So has another paradise been lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Kisses; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night) Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness CATHERINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beauteous star arises o'er my night Last Line: Their ghostly scent still haunts my bosom. Subject(s): Fate; Kisses; Life; Night; Stars; Destiny; Bedtime CHECK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was creeping on the ground! Last Line: Stared back solemnly at me! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime CHILD OF NIGHT, by JAMES SYDNEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: More free by far is the wild night jar Last Line: That day is not given. Subject(s): Children; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Childhood; Bedtime CHOICE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious time, I must prefer Last Line: Auroral creeds embrace. Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Night; Sky; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; NIGHT, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint from the bell the ghastly echoes fall Last Line: To spirits such as these, than unto common dead. Subject(s): Christ Church, Oxford, England; Night; Bedtime CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 2. OUTSIDE CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We whose days and ways Last Line: Not for us is born? Subject(s): God; Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime CHRISTMAS EVE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime CINQUAIN: NIGHT, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: The night / is warm and still Last Line: Wind's fan! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime CITY AT NIGHT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-black plumes of the fountain Subject(s): City & Town Life; Night; Bedtime CITY HALL AT NIGHT, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Dim, dark and spectral loom Last Line: Into view. Subject(s): Night; Poetry & Poets; Bedtime CLOSING TIME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, flaking down like chromium Last Line: Who cartwheel out of sight, end over end Subject(s): Night; Parties; Bedtime COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks; Sunrise; Bedtime COLLEGE NIGHT, by CHRISTINE TURNER CURTIS Poem Text First Line: In that last twilight of the may we sat Last Line: And steers to beauty through the gulfs and gales. Subject(s): Night; Wellesley College; Bedtime COMFORT IN THE NIGHT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought by heaven's high wall that she did stray Last Line: Then the gate closed and she awoke content. Subject(s): Comfort; Contentment; Kisses; Light; Night; Bedtime COMMUNION: 2. NOCTURNE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, night, let down your hair Last Line: My soul's too vast alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime COMPENSATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the night of doubt and error Last Line: A cloud that shades us in our need. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Night; Bedtime CONSIDERATIONS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, o lord, on me thy judgments lie Last Line: Thou that art the god of love. Subject(s): Death; God; Light; Love; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime COOL DARK ODE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could have sneaked up Last Line: Which all too often were carelessly left open for you Subject(s): Night; Bedtime CORONA BOREALIS, by INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY Poem Text First Line: I lie tonight beside the quiet sea Last Line: Oh, search this shore and miss me, starry crown. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore CRADLE SONG AT TWILIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child not yet is lulled to rest Last Line: Her alien eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Night; Bedtime CRESCENT MOON, by ELLA C. MACOMB Poem Text First Line: The crescent moon hangs low in the azure sky Last Line: To bring to all eternal peace. . . Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Sky; Dead, The; Bedtime CREST, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime CRIES IN THE NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in the pines. A coyote Last Line: And knew that his cry was my cry. Subject(s): Animals; Night; Voices; Bedtime CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.' Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime DARK NIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in such a night Last Line: Like that night of the mind. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DARK O' NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime DAS KRIST KINDEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight Last Line: "who brings the world good tidings, -- ""it is christmas -- all is well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Night; Santa Claus; Vision; Nativity, The; Bedtime; Nicholas, Saint DAWN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sigh sweeps the tall lush grasses Last Line: Fulfilling the dawn. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day is a snow-white dove of heaven Last Line: Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From grey of dusk, the veils unfold Last Line: Thus is the restful night re-won. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day goes down to meet the night Last Line: He drives her trooping stars away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long is the night, brother Last Line: But love is all in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DEAD LEAVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though a gipsy maiden with dim look Last Line: Of home intrudes upon our loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dusk; Night; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise; Bedtime DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime DEAR DAY, DEAR NIGHT, by ELIZABETH BARNET TOLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The silver dawn has been / dappled with golden dye Last Line: And after that, dear night! Subject(s): Day; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DEAR HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The touches of her hands are like Last Line: Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hands; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DEEP IN THE NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the night the cry of a swallow Last Line: Stilled by the stars at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DESERT NIGHT, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS Poem Text First Line: The mountains have put on Last Line: Responsories. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Bedtime DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DIFFERENCE, by ELEANORE MERLE IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Each day Last Line: To dreams. Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DILEMMA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows fall as the sun sinks down Last Line: Or be lost on a midnight-road? Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sun; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DORKIN'S NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "twas dorkin's night, and the house was a sight" Last Line: For an actor can be but a man Subject(s): Laughter;night;silence;tears; Bedtime DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver flash from the sinking sun Last Line: Queen night, on velvet slippered feet, comes softly down. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'! Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DRIVING HOME, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheels keep pulling Last Line: It may not carry me much longer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night; Roads; Bedtime; Paths; Trails DUNMORE, by CHARLES MALAM Poem Text First Line: It is midnight. And the mountains that all day Last Line: Effortless rising. And the tall reeds sigh. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime ECHOES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the angel stars are shining Last Line: Cry farewell, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Farewell; Night; Voices; Parting; Bedtime EFFINGHAM NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has put her garment of white madness Last Line: As hands, grown vague, drop listless to my side. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Bedtime EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!" Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime ELEGIAC SONNET: 39. TO NIGHT, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, mournful, sober-suited night! Last Line: May reach -- tho' lost on earth -- the ear of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Night; Bedtime EPITAPH: 12, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too soon Last Line: My grassy prison. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Night; Bedtime ETCHINGS: 2. PASSAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark sail Last Line: The ever-returning stars. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice. Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime EUSTON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now, when the sportsman is flitting from market and mammon Last Line: Till the last tail-light has twinkled, and gone in the dark! Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime EVEN AS DEWS FALL, by VINA BRUCE CHILTON Poem Text First Line: Nightly the dews of heaven spill Last Line: His love lies brooding over all. Alternate Author Name(s): Chilton, V. Bruce Subject(s): Faith; Night; Belief; Creed; Bedtime EVENING, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At my window what delight Last Line: Strikes the soothing chords of peace. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime EVENING ON LAKE SUPERIOR, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a molten globe which workers turn Last Line: Our shadowy tow-boat followed in our wake. Subject(s): Great Lakes; Night; Bedtime EVENING PRAYER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the light has gone away Last Line: Always better than before! Subject(s): Night; Praise; Prayer; Bedtime EVENING SONG, by EMMA GERTRUDE JAECK Poem Text First Line: Soft hovers the twilight o'er field and hill Last Line: God is watching o'er human weal and woe. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime EVENING STAR, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a twilight hour Last Line: Through the long, long hours of night, Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Bedtime EVENING STAR, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: At night Last Line: Of god. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Stars; Bedtime EVENING WALK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You give the appearance of listening Subject(s): Night; Trees; Walking; Bedtime EVENINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold, dark winter evenings Last Line: The evenings best of all. Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What matter all my looks to thee? Last Line: I mean by night, I mean by night! Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Night; Sun; Bedtime FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FALSE MORNING, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low in the west the pitiless sun dies Last Line: The long hours when the night and I were mute! Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Evening; Morning; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand Last Line: And it is day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue FEBRUARY NOCTURNE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: For me there is a secret on the western slope. Last Line: You who have left my heart pines and the stars? Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): February; Night; Stars; Bedtime FIGURE, by GEORGE BRANDON SAUL Poem Text First Line: The fire speaks; the clouds shudder Last Line: Forgetting, as men must forget, their dreams done. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime FIRE AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire! Fire! Ring! And ring! Last Line: Wonder where their old fire's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Fire; Night; Bedtime FIREFLIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately I had looked for you everywhere Last Line: To little light. Subject(s): Fireflies; Nature; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime FIVE NOCTURNES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She always had to burn a light Last Line: There will come another day Subject(s): Night; Bedtime FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking FLORENTINE MAY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still is the night; still as the pause after pain Last Line: Only the night can know. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Night; Bedtime FLOWERETS, by ACHILLE PAYSANT Poem Text First Line: Think not I could forget your graces fallen asleep Last Line: His tomb. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Night; Youth; Dead, The; Bedtime FOUR A.M., by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour between night and day. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime FOUR GLIMPSES OF NIGHT, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eagerly Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Night; Negroes; American Blacks; Bedtime FOURTH NIGHT, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON Poem Text First Line: Escape the towers of the night Last Line: I know of what heat brings. Subject(s): Future Life; Night; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime FRAGMENTS (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From labours through the night, outworn Last Line: We mount to her, to her belong. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is the heaven of this night Last Line: For sleep is fair and warm. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A NIGHT-SCENE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake, like her, heaves gently Last Line: Out of the sun's grave underneath the world. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night. Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday FROM BELOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dim summer night they were leaning alone Last Line: Where he dropped his cigar in the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Opera; Summer; Bedtime FROM THE NIGHT TO THE DAWN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every night some haggard hours there are Last Line: Of dawn and fill with light the hollow sky. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime FROM THE NORTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more without you! Sighing,dear,once more Last Line: The amber midnight smiles in dreams of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dawn; Forests; Night; Sunrise; Woods; Bedtime FROM WAR, 1919, by ARTHUR FIELD Poem Text First Line: Honour is the bondage of a fool Last Line: Its virtue is, it must go underground. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Night; Religion; Bedtime; Theology FULL MOON, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: I / am the still, white moon Last Line: Soon you will reach it—soon! Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; White (color); Dead, The; Bedtime FULL MOON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During these nights Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime GEESE AT IGHT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear geese passing over high in the darkness Subject(s): Geese; Night; Bedtime GHAZALS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm Last Line: And a new sun to guide us, a holy book, tracked in new blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Music & Musicians; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime GHAZALS: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is thin and watery; fish in the air Last Line: Him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Medicine; Night; Sex; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Bedtime GIBRALTAR ROCK, AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has set over spain and the lights of gibraltar Last Line: That beauty has made immortal -- and then forgot. Subject(s): Beauty; Gibraltar; Night; Spain; Bedtime GOD IN THE NIGHT, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the dark I hear the feet of god Last Line: Lets god pass by when he walks forth at night. Subject(s): God; Night; Bedtime GODIVA MOON, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: He fashioned in the heat of august noon Last Line: Unto her bed of amethyst and gold. Subject(s): Godiva, Lady (1140-1180); Moon; Night; Bedtime GONDOLIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gondolier, gondolier, my dear" Last Line: Neath the bridge of sighs Subject(s): Bridges;love;night; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has set Last Line: And not 'good-bye'? Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark is silent in his nest Last Line: Good-night, my love, good-night, good-night. Subject(s): African Americans; Night; Negroes; American Blacks; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day is past! Last Line: Good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good night! Good night! Last Line: Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The evening sun's gaen down the west Last Line: Good night, and joy be wi' you a'! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD-NIGHT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night. Good-night. Ah, good the night Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Night; Religion; Parting; Bedtime; Theology GOOD-NIGHT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now shadows fold the sunset gold Last Line: Good-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD-NIGHT, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, sleep well!' we say to those we love Last Line: Sleep well, good-night! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Bedtime GOOD-NIGHT, by CLARENCE AUGUSTUS VINCENT Poem Text First Line: Good-night! Good-night! Last Line: Till tomorrow! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Bedtime GOODBYE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds of the seas grow fainter Last Line: As night shuts out the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Seasons; Bedtime GOODNIGHT, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in bed and waiting to find out Subject(s): Night; Babies; Bedtime; Infants GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime HAD THERE BEEN FALSEHOOD IN MY BREAST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Night; Day; Perception; Bedtime HAG NIGHT, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: La, what a night! The hag has sworn Last Line: And not a blink her booby cheereth! Subject(s): Anger; Night; Bedtime HARBOUR STARS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer stars are great and low and still Last Line: The roadstead wind that calls us out once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Calm; Night; Stars; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime HARPOCRATES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The message of the god I seek Last Line: "I am the truth that cannot change" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking HAUNTED, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A noisome mildewed vine Last Line: The murdered face to face! Subject(s): Night; Curses; Bedtime HELEN KELLER, by ROSE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: For us the shelter of the day Last Line: With long sidereal look. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Bedtime HENRY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In canossa's castle courtyard Last Line: "of my sorrows with his war-axe." Subject(s): Castles; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime HENRY'S UNDERSTANDING, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was reading late, at richard's, down in maine Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime HER LONESOMENESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little elizabeth whispers Last Line: "way in the night, you know!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime HEREDITY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the night Last Line: His doom to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime HEROES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the night, a champion bright Last Line: Against the noonday bares a blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime HESPERUS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the street the last late hansoms go Last Line: Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime HIDE AND SEEK, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Night, of nights that were and are / tenderest, best! Last Line: For a while! Subject(s): Death; Guilt; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime HIGH NOON AT MIDSUMMER ON THE CAMPAGNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High noon Last Line: Of noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Graves; Night; Rome, Italy; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HIS VIGIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book and dim the light Last Line: Just as god were sitting here. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; God; Night; Reading; Bedtime HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime HOLY NIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph, I afraid of stars Subject(s): Christmas; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime HOME, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas midnight -- midnight in a southern clime Last Line: There brighter skies, but fonder hearts are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Night; North, The; Bedtime HOME AT LAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child, do not fear Last Line: There we shall sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime HOODED NIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died Last Line: Amusements are quiet: the dark glory Subject(s): Night; Landscape; Bedtime HOW GILBERT DIED, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never a stone at the sleeper's head Last Line: Can tell you how gilbert died. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HUSH OF TWILIGHT, by G. KENYON ASHENDEN Poem Text First Line: After the sun goes down Last Line: All destiny is cast. Subject(s): Day; Evening; Light; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime HYMN TO DARKNESS, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: Hail thou most sacred venerable thing Last Line: Tis just we should adore, 'tis just we should thee sing. Variant Title(s): To Darkness Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime HYMN TO THE MOON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is this silent scene! Last Line: And ruling o'er the pathless waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Silence; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness HYMN TO THE NIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the trailing garments of the night Last Line: The best-beloved night! Subject(s): Nature; Night; Prayer; Bedtime I CHAFE AT DARKNESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chafe at darkness in the night Last Line: Waving seem. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY'S THE AIM, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man was leading us through trees. We saw darkness in the Last Line: Relations; ... Then, & I was young: ... Suddenly. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime I LIFT MY CANDLE, by ELLEN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: I lift my candle as a shield Last Line: Go slinking off in shame. Subject(s): Candles; God; Night; Bedtime I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill" Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States I WILL SING YOU ONE-O, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was long I lay Last Line: And nation nation Subject(s): Night; Universe; Bedtime I WOULD NOT LIFT THY VEIL, by A. LOUISE ASHWORTH Poem Text First Line: I hugged the great body of the night close to me, then closer Last Line: The veil is thine -- I would not, if I could. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime IDEALS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could day demand a gift of night Last Line: A lengthened hour with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime IL PENSEROSO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence vain deluding joys Last Line: And I with thee will choose to live. Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Melancholy; Night; Dejection; Bedtime IMAGE, by ALICE H. MERTZ Poem Text First Line: The buttonwoods stand like shriven penitents Last Line: And healing green will shroud and over and beautify. Subject(s): Night; Spring; Bedtime IN A BOX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them last night in a box at Last Line: With that far-away look in her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Old Age; Youth; Bedtime IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime IN A SEPTEMBER NIGHT, by F. WYVILLE HOME Poem Text First Line: There the moon leans out and blesses Last Line: In such patient quietude? Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN A VISION OF THE NIGHT, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chamber is so hot, I cannot rest Last Line: Let me go! I too did dream. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN A-FISHIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de sun's gone down, an' de Last Line: Chorus Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Night; Bedtime IN CARMEL BAY, by MADGE CLOVER Poem Text First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day Last Line: She steps into the night. Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN DARKNESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dumb silence and her sightless sister sleep Last Line: Dream-voices and an echoing dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN GUERNSEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors Last Line: Beloved and blest. Subject(s): Guernsey; Night; Roundels; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat Last Line: And the world is very still. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime IN NEW YORK: 4. IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, groping / for delight Last Line: Not there? Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep; Wind; Bedtime IN OLD HASTINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ere dawn, when clustered stars are wan Last Line: Is gathered to the secret of the sea! Subject(s): Dawn; Hastings, England; Night; Sea; Sunrise; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue! Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF NIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breath of morning wakes Last Line: Alas! 'tis day. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE CITY AT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towards the end of night Last Line: Suck in our helpless lives, destroy this dreadful spot! Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime IN THE DARK, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All moveless stand the ancient cedar-trees Last Line: Grant me to see the light! Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often, when I wake from sleep at night Last Line: Over it, and gulfed me in its deeps below. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Ill-tempered; Night; Bedtime IN THE DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O in the depths of midnight Last Line: And wait for me somewhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Pain; Rain; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery IN THE DARKE NONE DAINTY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night hides our thefts; all faults then paydon'd be Last Line: The chosen rubie, and the reprobate. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE DEEP MIDNIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clanging, ever clanging Last Line: All want that was is peace ... All clanging rest! Subject(s): Bells; Life; Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains IN THE KITCHEN, LATE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you stumble in the night, out of your room of sleep Last Line: Like a breath in the hairs of your leg. Subject(s): Moths; Night; Bedtime IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man Last Line: In the long run. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime IN THE MEADOWS OF THE SKY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the great sower, night Last Line: In that wide, heavenly land. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, the beautiful, bitter night Last Line: Never to sprout in the wilderness of earth. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel? I think there never was a cheating Last Line: My arms across the silence and the shade. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's night, and no light Last Line: "go to sleep, my dear""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sleep; Time; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There always is a noise when it is dark Last Line: My heart asunder! Subject(s): Fear; Night; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime IN THE NURSERY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go, bob, when you're fast asleep? Last Line: Perhaps -- we'll see.' Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Night; Orchards; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime IN THE SECULAR NIGHT, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the secular night you wander around Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a princess in the south Last Line: Would blossom as a lily might. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Music & Musicians; Night; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) IN THE STILLNESS O' THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ov all the housen o' the pleace Last Line: In the stillness o' the night. Subject(s): Love; Night; Walking; Winter; Bedtime IN THE WOODS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime INDIAN NIGHT, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: The dark wind rushed from the empty plain Last Line: Whimpered the tents to sleep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime INITIATION, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has fallen asleep; the bough that tost Last Line: Most true to earth when I seem most untrue? Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime INSCRIPTIONS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The epitaph of night Last Line: Above each grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Graves; Night; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime INSOMNIA, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep; the whole night through Last Line: And now at dawn I cannot weep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime INTELLECT: 1, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Is night the excuse for such a star? Last Line: That darkest are? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Reason; Stars; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTERLUDE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-light recedes on the mountains, in long gold shafts Last Line: On which he dreams. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime INTO THE SHADOW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Back again into the shadow-after the sun! Last Line: But the gradual gloom grows less as god's daylight breaks afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime INVOCATION, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: The ear of day is strained and weak Last Line: A welcome; live! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery IT IS DIFFICULT TO SPEAK OF THE NIGHT, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Bedtime JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore JOACHIM, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The night glides, chill and murk, through paris. In its shades two Last Line: Steeped in tears, steeped in tears. . . . O those little broken cries! Subject(s): Life; Night; Paris, France; Bedtime JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the long day dies in summer and flowers are closing Last Line: Lurks all night long low down on the skyline gray. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In summer, when the day is gone Last Line: Dawn waits its hour. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! / the song is still ringing Last Line: Oh, why are we silent, kathleen mavourneen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime L'ALLEGRO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence loathed melancholy Last Line: Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime LABORE CONFECTO, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah god, how good and sweet it is Last Line: On such a white, white breast! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Rest; Work; Workers; Bedtime LAPSE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Measure the failure of print Last Line: A loathsome crime. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime LAST NIGHT, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Last night where gladness reigned supreme Last Line: But save thy tears for me. Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime LAST NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where were you last night? I watched at the gate Last Line: As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hate; Love; Night; Spring; Bedtime LATE HOURS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer nights the world Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LATE IN THE NIGHT, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One can't converse with shades Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LE SENSE DE LA NUIT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are some clues Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song stays Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LET THEM GO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Last Line: Let the love die! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Night; Vision; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward even when the day leans down Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime LIFE'S GULF STREAM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stars that in the darkness bloom Last Line: To the coast of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LIGHT AND SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, little maid' Last Line: And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LIGHT IN DARKNESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day - of sorrow pitiless Last Line: The dawn-extinguished star. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime LIGHT NIGHT, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree, enamel needles, Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LISTENING, by MATA TRUE Poem Text First Line: My ear was tuned to listen for your step Last Line: Of this drear, aching void where lay my heart. Subject(s): Death; Night; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Bedtime LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dicky was sick Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness LOCH TORRIDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of night more fair than morning rose Last Line: But came on us hard out of heaven, and alive with the soul of the sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Night; Stars; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime LOCKED OUT; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we locked up the house at night Last Line: At dusk to watch the moon down early. Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Bedtime LOCKERBIE FAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lockerbie fair! - have you Last Line: Simply waiting your orders, at lockerbie fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Festivals; Moon; Night; Fairs; Pageants; Bedtime LOCKERBIE STREET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a dear little street it is, nestled Last Line: My rhyme-haunted raptures of lockerbie street. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Streets; Towns; Bedtime; Avenues LOFT AT NIGHT, by VIRGINIA ABEL Poem Text First Line: Dim heaps of summer's fragrant wealth Last Line: And myriad stillnesses creeps in. Subject(s): Barns; Night; Bedtime LONDON AT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river squats and towers Last Line: Its splendour, terrible, august. Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime LOUELLA WAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Louella wainie! Where are you Last Line: Louella wainie! Where are you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime LOVE AND TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The longest night of the year, they say Last Line: Time was nothing and darkness best! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Time; Bedtime LOVE IN EXILE I: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moon, large golden summer moon Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime LOVE'S WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When I was in thy chamber Last Line: This wicked tale of thee Subject(s): Love;moon;night; Bedtime LOVELY NIGHT, by RUBY MARION WRAY Poem Text First Line: Oh night, thy silver stars bewitch me Last Line: And love answers love, from love's own eyes. Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime LULL, by RHEA B. ZEHR Poem Text First Line: The frightened night Last Line: Crouched like a black cat waiting. Subject(s): Night; Storms; Bedtime LULLABY, by REMO BUFANO Poem Text First Line: Now that night has turned to jet Last Line: That eternally will pass. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime LUNAR STANZAS, by HENRY COGSWELL KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Night saw the crew like pedlers withtheir packs Last Line: And revel o'er me, like a soulless sheep. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Nonsense; Bedtime LYING AWAKE, by GERTRUDE KURZENKNABE SHAFFER Poem Text First Line: Tis fun Last Line: But -- I'm not! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 47, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love, in fond converse together Last Line: We mournfully floated along. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 51, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her dark attire thus wearing Last Line: Is ended as soon as you please. Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in vision behold I thee Last Line: And the word is forgotten completely. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 62, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis autumn, the night's dark and gloomy Last Line: She looks with many a tear. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Night; Seasons; Tears; Fall; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 63, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees in the autumn wind rustle Last Line: "thy foolish reverie?" Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 66, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight was cold, in plaintive mood Last Line: They shook their heads with pity deep. Subject(s): Forests; Night; Sleep; Woods; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 68, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wheresoe'er I go, there darkles Last Line: Night primeval, take thy child! Subject(s): Love; Night; Stars; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime MAD MORNING MOONLIGHT OF HAWAII, by DOROTHY FAY Poem Text First Line: I leaned from my casement long ere the dim dawn Last Line: Shining, silver shining, evermore, evermore. Subject(s): Hawaii; Night; Bedtime MAGIC NIGHT, by GLEN STIRLING Poem Text First Line: From my window Last Line: Are silenced in sleep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MAGUS MUIR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently ye fall, ye summer showers Last Line: My soul might saved be! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Murder; Night; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime MAINE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips MARCH NIGHT, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: The world is bare Last Line: The apple-wood fire's bright red. Subject(s): March (month); Night; Sleet; Bedtime MARCH NIGHTS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thin night wind is cold Last Line: I have borne too many springs. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): March (month); Night; Bedtime MATINEE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the night-haunt where vapours crowd Last Line: And ariel hush his harp to hear. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MAY NIGHT, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: So still the tree stands in the night Last Line: So still. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MEDITATION, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet now, sorrow; relax. Calm down, fear ... Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime MEETING AGAIN, AFTER HEINE, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rose like a blooming flower Last Line: And I nodded fast in the fast nightfall Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray sea and the long black land Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each. Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MENTANA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the time when the stars are grey Last Line: "give all men heart to be free." Subject(s): Italy; Nations; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime MICHAEL OAKTREE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed Last Line: The sacrament and sabbath of the sea. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MIDNIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomably night! How dost thou sweep Last Line: The voice of time -- survivor of them all! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where I sit, I see the stars Last Line: That crying in the dark. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night, and in darkness; -- the visions of youth Last Line: The sign of forgiveness from maker to man! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And suddenly I wakened in a fright Last Line: If he would let me off -- he said he would. Subject(s): Angels; Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT - THE 31ST OF DECEMBER, 1900, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Now on the midnight the soul of the century passing Last Line: "and victory followeth me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Night; War; Bedtime MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, by MARGARET W. RITCHIE Poem Text First Line: The whistles blew Last Line: The shattered walls of night closed in! Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains MIDNIGHT MUSIC, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wakes me from my heavy sleep Last Line: Good night, o mother dear!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Sleep; Bedtime MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye loud-howling tempests, fell roamers of night Last Line: And quench my thanksgiving in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT-BY THE OPEN WINDOW, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rapt the sleeping stillness of the / night Last Line: Roused from the sleepy comfort of his seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars. Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MIDSUMMER NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon's mild and silvery light Last Line: What joy 'twould bring to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Silence; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON Poem Text First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime MOON, by MOISELLE RENSTROM Poem Text First Line: Oh, moon, moon, what has happened to you Last Line: Where is the rest of you shining tonight? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOON BATHERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falls from her heaven the moon, and stars sink burning Last Line: So slowly, who shall say when light is gone? Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MOON-DROWNED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the height of the fete when Last Line: Purple and gold and ivory! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime MOONLIGHT IN THE PINES, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full-starred, seraphic night arose Last Line: Move with a secret word. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOONLIGHT PICTURE, by CHARLOTTE G. FRIETSCH GUNTER Poem Text First Line: Have you ever seen the fireflies dance by moonlight Last Line: That come to me on shining rays from distant star. Subject(s): Beauty; Night; Bedtime MOONRISE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grub-white mulberries redden among leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Night; Bedtime MOONRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first snows of the year lie white Last Line: While faint the windy stars are seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Night; Pine Trees; Snow; Trees; Bedtime MOONRISE, by HELENE THURSTON Poem Text First Line: The cool and trailing garments of the dusk Last Line: Her face smiles down upon the waiting world. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Rain; Bedtime MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MOONSET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Idles the night wind through the dreaming firs Last Line: But I have touched your soul in shadow-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOONSHINER'S SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's blind-black, an' I 'low Last Line: I'll be twic't as good-again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Night; Roses; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MOONSNAILS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The size, you said, of silver dollars Last Line: Its artless slice of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Night; Snails; Bedtime MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will there really be a morning Last Line: Where the place called morning lies. Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime MORNING IN MARRAKESH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in marrakesh we still have to decide Last Line: Black tail points toward the desert Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Morning; Night; Bedtime MORNING JITTERS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the storm re-established itself Subject(s): Storms; Night; Bedtime MORNING POEM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning / the world / is created Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MOUNTAIN INSOMNIA, by ELSA THUESEN Poem Text First Line: All through the black edges of night Last Line: And I slept again. Subject(s): Mountains; Night; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime MUSE OF MIDNIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street, stars collide Last Line: Toward its target: a room in flames. Subject(s): Muses; Night; Bedtime MUTATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till comes the crescent moon Last Line: Forgets the sovereignty of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime MUTINY, by HEINZ RETTIG Poem Text First Line: The night was stilled, the shadows filled Last Line: A-rockin' like a rocker. Subject(s): Mutiny; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My antique lamp from old japan Last Line: And take myself to bed. Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime MY LADY'S BATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sky hung dark and shaded Last Line: At the pearl-white glimpse of her.) Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Night; Women; Showers & Showering; Bedtime MY NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Hush! List, heart of mine Last Line: Baptize me, drown me in black swirls of bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dancing & Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Bedtime MY THREE GUESTS: PEACE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle calm had brooded through the day Last Line: From grief and sorrow brought me sweet release. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime MY WHITE BREAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dem good old days done past and Last Line: Says a-eatin' my white braid! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bread; Night; Past; Bedtime MYSTERY, by NELLIE H. MOORE Poem Text First Line: I walked among the purple hills Last Line: Into a darkness we call night. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime NEIGHBOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a heedless fellow man Last Line: "o landlord, I'll repay." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NEMESIS, by ESTELLE CHASE SAMUELSON Poem Text First Line: I sought refuge within the dismal shrouds of night Last Line: For one who played fool truant at life's helm. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NETLEY ABBEY, MIDNIGHT, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY Poem Text First Line: Soft on the wave the oars at distance sound Last Line: Shall pour the lenient balm that soothes the soul to peace. Subject(s): Funerals; Melancholy; Night; Burials; Dejection; Bedtime NEW NIGHT THOUGHTS ON DEATH; A PARODY, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night! Dark night! Wrapped round with stygian gloom! Last Line: Fools banter heav'n itself, o young!—and thee! Subject(s): Death; Night; Thought; Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dead, The; Bedtime; Thinking NEW PARAGRAPH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hoped the brilliant sunset of july Last Line: Not ever. This is the unending end. Subject(s): July; Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ALCMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The far peaks sleep, the great ravines Last Line: And every bird, its wide wings folded, sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How colorless the sky and dreary Last Line: How fervently I love ye all! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold remote islands Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: The witching magic of the scented night Last Line: Each corner hidden now by night's kind dark. Subject(s): Magic; Night; Spring; Bedtime NIGHT, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL Poem Text First Line: I stood and watched the still, mysterious night Last Line: Fled timid o'er the distant western hills. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, not as once thou camest, night! Last Line: To other spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is white, the wind is cold Last Line: And bring me the news from slumbertown. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east, as from an unknown shore Last Line: Through thee, o night, to ban us or to bless. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by PETRONELLA HELEN URASKY CHAPP Poem Text First Line: A soft wind scented with fragrance Last Line: And subtly soothe our ills. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The god of day is speeding his way Last Line: And the slave forget his chain. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sober stillness of the night Last Line: Instruct me how to pray. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Bedtime NIGHT, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Solemn is night, when silence holds her reign Last Line: "or mourns those joys which of themselves decay!" Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All from the light of the sweet moon Last Line: Sighs, and his soft airs flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ADA B. DEAL Poem Text First Line: Watchman, tell us of the night Last Line: Ah, but watchman, tell us of the night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The weary day has leaned her head in slumber Last Line: From them, and me. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue NIGHT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night has cut Last Line: To perish on the branch. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by AMBROSE JULIAN FAHY Poem Text First Line: Oh stormy night with darkened veil! Last Line: Eternal light the soul will share. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: When all the streets are bright with lamps again Last Line: That night is once again a lovely thing. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis solemn darkness; the sublime of shade Last Line: A cacodæmon in mine ignorant mood. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was far beyond horizon's bar Last Line: The blue empyrean forever and forever. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Stars; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The ebb slips from the rock, the sunken Last Line: And death is no evil. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by WILHELM KLEMM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river mutters to itself in the darkness Last Line: To be or not to be. ... Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the wedded reign of night and day Last Line: Montgomery, alabama, april. 1866. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore! Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime NIGHT, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Text First Line: No roofs are here to mark the roll of heaven Last Line: Candle light. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Blue (color); Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the time for rest Last Line: To parting friends;—such death be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by LUNA E. NEWTON Poem Text First Line: The moon rocks forth like a cradle thing Last Line: Singing a lullaby. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ADA JORDAN PRAY Poem Text First Line: Night has dropped her rosy curtain Last Line: With peace our hearts to fill. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Peace; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the dim breast of ocean's wave Last Line: Thy low winds breathe the distant shores along! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou come again, oh night Last Line: In some sweet lullaby. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O night eternal and blue Last Line: As leaves in a gust of the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose Last Line: The planets may divide. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Night; Time; Bedtime NIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is gone Last Line: Alone I lie. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take me, night, unto thy breast! Last Line: Lose me, lose me, night! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome, solemn, thoughtful night Last Line: I rest my aching head. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only the bell keeps him alive though that is Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the italian of giovanni strozzi Last Line: Take heed, then, lest thou wake me: ah, speak low. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some dusk mother shields from all alarms Last Line: How beautiful the holy hours of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Truth; Wind; Bedtime NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sunlit hours are o'er Last Line: Death is life, and death alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT AND DEATH, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm-wind is howling Last Line: Her glory above. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lift to heaven my longing eyes Last Line: But we are one at heaven's height. Subject(s): Morning; Night; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: AFTER MOONSET, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies burned white in the dark Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: SANCTUARIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a chamber in the dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime NIGHT AND SHADOWS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday I watched the shadows play Last Line: If I remember morning speeds the night. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime NIGHT AND SLEEP, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the time of night-prayer, as the sun slides down Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AND SLEEP, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange at night to wake Last Line: And call her crazed with wrong. Variant Title(s): The Shadow Of Night Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery NIGHT BELLS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bells...Six bells Subject(s): Bells; Night; Bedtime NIGHT BELOW ZERO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation; Bedtime NIGHT BLOSSOMING, by JANICE BLANCHARD Poem Text First Line: A fragrance sweeter than a young man's dreams Last Line: Surpassing any known to brides of june. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NIGHT BURIAL IN THE FOREST, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair Last Line: The wings of the angel who gathers the souls from the wastes of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Night; Woods; Burials; Bedtime NIGHT CLOSES IN, by BONSALL RHODES Poem Text First Line: A red bird flashes silently by Last Line: Voiceless, yet vocal, night closes in! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT DRIVE, by HELEN MCGAUGHEY Poem Text First Line: I ride with music under stars that shine Last Line: And be, myself, a comrade of the dark. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT HYMN AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night sinks on the wave Last Line: Power dwells with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean NIGHT HYMNS ON LAKE NEPIGON, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island Last Line: Ringing like cymbals. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Soul; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: The night is still Last Line: And life eternal springs. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT IN A SUBWAY STATION, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: The train was late. He sat among the crowds Last Line: He couldn't use the things. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Smoking; Subways; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NIGHT IN ARIZONA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a charring ember Last Line: And cry like a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Arizona; Night; Bedtime NIGHT IN BOSTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the roof the night's the color Last Line: Like any rubber ball. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boston; Love Affairs; Night; Bedtime NIGHT IN FLORIDA, by ALPHEUS BUTLER Poem Text First Line: In florida at dusk Last Line: Of three tall men against the moon. Subject(s): Florida; Night; Bedtime NIGHT IN JUNE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left my dreamy page and sallied forth Last Line: In fairy groves of herds grass Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT IN NEW YORK, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haunted by unknown feet Last Line: And behold, it is day! Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing! Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT IN THE OZARKS, by OPAL HARDAWAY Poem Text First Line: Night, when you lay black velvet paws Last Line: In man, in work, in lowly sod. Subject(s): Night; Ozarks (mountains); Bedtime NIGHT IN VENICE, by LOUISE KIDDER SPARROW Poem Text First Line: Night in venice! On the grand canal Last Line: Nestles a blight -- how chill has grown the air! Subject(s): Night; Venice, Italy; Bedtime NIGHT IS A CISTERN, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is a cistern. Owls sing. Refugees tread meadow roads Subject(s): Night; Walking; Bedtime NIGHT JOURNEY, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN Poem Text First Line: As we rode the lean white highway through the dark Last Line: Serving as dark a purpose of their own. Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT MAGIC, by RUTH ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: When the wail of the swamps and the Last Line: That's a breath of eternity. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT MELODIES, by MARGARET HAIGHT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I have lain awake at night Last Line: Where silver was before. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT MOVEMENT - NEW YORK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, when the sea winds take the city in their arms Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night! Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT ON CURBAR EDGE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No echo of man's life pursues my ears Last Line: Tremendous silence, older than the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT ON DARTMOOR, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Dark - and a still night, lying up here on dartmoor Last Line: Gone! Beautiful wordless voice, and feet of the far off dancers. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Night; Bedtime NIGHT PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, of those better tides of dark and melancholy Last Line: They lie so deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT PIECE, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt in gloom Last Line: Waste of souls Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT PIECE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows' saracenic hordes Last Line: Of age and wait for the clock's cold chime. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT PIECE (2), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold hours pass Last Line: Neath the wintry moon! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT QUATRAINS, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is set, and gone to sleep Last Line: For every day must have its night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time of night it is Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Night; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime NIGHT RAPTURE; FOR FLORENCE LAMONT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it is to wake at night Last Line: How beautiful it is to wake at night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON Poem Text First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train. Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SONG, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road runs up against the stars Last Line: For I am here alone. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT SONG, by MARION KNILL HENDRIX Poem Text First Line: My sleep is cool quicksilver and I swim Last Line: I swim in quiet waters, cool and deep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT SONG, by ALICE PHELPS RIDER Poem Text First Line: Night comes. / the dream lake pales into a murmured song Last Line: Night glows. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT SOUNDS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism NIGHT SOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that toil by night Last Line: The dews of peace perennial! Subject(s): Death; Night; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, germany, I think of thee Last Line: And all my german cares beguiling! Subject(s): Germany; Night; Thought; Germans; Bedtime; Thinking NIGHT THOUGHTS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night - still night! The murmuring world lies still Last Line: And wishes that know no rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS: FOUR A.M., by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night sky, spore drift, black sponge Last Line: In the past and present Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer? Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT WAS DONE, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night was done. We rose and after Last Line: As though night's twain were not we. Variant Title(s): This Summer's Love Subject(s): Memory; Night; Bedtime NIGHT WATCHERS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How goes the night, faun?' lo, the woodland crier's eyes Last Line: At dawn-time, and vanish with the light! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT WEPT!, by HALLIE ARLUND Poem Text First Line: As she folded her dark wings about her Last Line: To brush them away. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT WIND, by F. G. HAGER Poem Text First Line: The darkness hides a hound upon a track Last Line: And all night long the hound runs close behind. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime NIGHT WINDS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The slender moon in its silvery sheen Last Line: For what should the night winds sigh? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Bedtime NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world’s as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to change; the age of tyrants returns Last Line: This is more beautiful....At night.... Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Patriotism; Night; Bedtime NIGHT WORK, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's too much: this hard work Last Line: Hardly changed at all Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT'S BEAUTIES, by GERTRUDE YATES MCGIFFERT Poem Text First Line: The ground is covered with moonlight Last Line: And all the night's beauty seek. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT'S FAIRYLAND, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: When day has wrapped her golden robe Last Line: "day breathes her ""thank you"" prayer." Subject(s): Day; Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime NIGHT, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun descending in the west Last Line: As I guard o'er the fold.' Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Night; Bedtime NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR Poem Text First Line: The night is fair, - too fair for us to stay Last Line: And drained of all the glory of to-night. Subject(s): Cactus; Night; Bedtime NIGHT-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairest blossom of the light Last Line: Restore us to her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIGHT-PIECE, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's that scratching Last Line: In sleep. Night creeps by. Subject(s): Montague, John (b. 1929); Night; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT-PIECE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan Last Line: Stirs to the voice of everlasting sleep. Subject(s): Night; Soldiers' Writings; Bedtime NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, white in the milky night Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Night; Parties; Gardens & Gardening; Bedtime NIGHT-SONG, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night -- my bark is on the ocean Last Line: Bless thee, my love! Good night, good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Ocean NIGHT; AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense Last Line: Alone, than err with millions on thy side. Subject(s): Duty; Facades; Lloyd, Robert (1733-1764); Mankind; Morality; Night; Appearances; Human Race; Ethics; Bedtime NIGHT; TO LUCASTA, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night! Loathed jailor of the lock'd-up sun Last Line: Now feels it all the day one rising morn. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTCAP, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grateful prayer to god above Last Line: Rain upon a roof of tin. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by FLORENCE ASHLEY BELLER Poem Text First Line: The daylight passes swiftly and it seems Last Line: A dawn made fairer by this night of tears. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY Poem Text First Line: As evening splendors fade Last Line: In the dome of the infinite. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low burns the summer afternoon Last Line: And night and quiet reign alone. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will never walk again Last Line: And stars come out in the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL (1), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cool whisper of the trees Last Line: The night is come. Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL ON THE LYNNHAVEN, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love lynnhaven river at this hour Last Line: Slowly to darkness and oblivion. Subject(s): Night; Rivers; Shadows; Bedtime NOCHE TRISTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that bore me to my dead Last Line: "her night hath stars and voices too." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NOCTURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whispering voice of the modest night Last Line: The face of my love again—at last? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNAL CRIME AT THE CHATEAU, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Is the chateau to spooks a prey, the black chateau of la ferte? Last Line: There to see) -- the black chateau of la ferte! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime NOCTURNAL QUESTION, by GEORGE RICHARD KAYTON Poem Text First Line: Now breaks the moon through clouds of purple haze Last Line: Wracked as they are with want and social pain . . . Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NOCTURNAL VEILS, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, looking up at the light-peppered dark, Subject(s): Night; Death; Paintings & Painters; Bedtime; Dead, The NOCTURNE, by VINA BRUCE CHILTON Poem Text First Line: The night has thrown her mantle, and her stars Last Line: By one misstep? A singing star will fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Chilton, V. Bruce Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by PATRICIA BURNS FLINN Poem Text First Line: Night is so beautiful, I watch it on my knees Last Line: Make life so marvelous, I live it on my knees. Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by CROSBIE GARSTIN Poem Text First Line: The red flame flowers bloom and die Last Line: In the star-chamber of the wild. Variant Title(s): On The Back Veld Subject(s): Night; Wilderness; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream you are the moon's most favoured child Last Line: The silences that brood around the stars. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN AUGUST, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: I saw two stars there walking hand in hand Last Line: I try to cling to what is left of night. Subject(s): August; Moon; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNES & AUBADES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the night's minute disturbances Last Line: Shattered glass of stars to you. . . . Subject(s): Life; Night; Bedtime NOEY'S NIGHT-PIECE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ain't much 'tale' about it!' noey said Last Line: Glanced at the children, smiled, and thus complied. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 1. GOOD NIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then [or, when] the bright lamp is carried in Last Line: Till far to-morrow, fare you well! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 1 Subject(s): Lamps; Night; Bedtime NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 2. SHADOW MARCH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house is the jet-black night Last Line: With the black night overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 2 Subject(s): Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting! Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime NOVEMBER, by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Now morning points the day when yellow leaves Last Line: Care we for snow? Subject(s): Autumn; Morning; Night; November; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime NOVEMBER NIGHT, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crystal night! - with moon and the clear wind Last Line: That had no fellow till I came to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Night; November; Bedtime NOVEMBER NIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds in the night pass fitfully, destroying Last Line: Down through the darkness over the fallen leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime NOW COMES THE NIGHT, by HERBERT GERHARD BRUNCKEN Poem Text First Line: Now comes the night on spotted feet Last Line: About men's stricken cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Bruncken, Gerhard Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NUIT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The all upholding Last Line: Night has her graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Night; Bedtime NUIT BLANCHE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up to-night Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Ghosts; White (color); Bedtime NUPTIAL NIGHT, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! And again the chatter of the starling / athwart the lawn! Last Line: Bathe her, bedeck her, behymn her, my queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime O, GO NOT YET!, by QUINTIN BONE Poem Text First Line: O, go not yet - not yet! / night veils her myriad stars Last Line: O, go not yet -- not yet! Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime O, THAT MY MUSE COULD TELL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When roused from sleep at night Last Line: When dawns the morning light! Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime OBLIQUE PRAYER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the profound dark Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail venerable night! Last Line: A god the gods among. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime ODE TO NIGHT, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail reverend monarch! Hoary night! Last Line: Converse, refreshing as thy dews. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death; Night; Yalden, Thomas (1670-1730); Dead, The; Bedtime OF WINDS, SNOWS AND THE STARS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O witchery of the winter night Last Line: And the red moon sinks beyond the west. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Bedtime OFF SHORE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the might of the summer is most on the sea Last Line: But thou art the god, and thy kingdom is heaven, and thy shrine is the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sea; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean OLD YEAR, GOOD-NIGHT!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Old year, good - night! A faithful friend Last Line: Old year, good-night! Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Night; Belief; Creed; Bedtime OLIVE NIGHT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jemez / indians mention the los ojos bar Last Line: Summer night. Subject(s): Night; Violence; Bedtime ON A CALM SUMMER'S NIGHT, by JOHN NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: The night is calm, the cygnet's down Last Line: And loath to say good night. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson Of Kirkcudbright, John Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he couldn't sleep and his sight got going Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ON A RAINBOW AT NIGHT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bow that spans the storm is beautiful Last Line: Even man feels that the night is made for god. Subject(s): Night; Rainbows; Bedtime ON A YOUNG LADY'S GOING TO OWN IN THE SPRING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night unhappy celadon Last Line: Not satisfied with private sway at home. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Spring; Youth; Bedtime ON CLOSING THE EYES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good night, my dear ones. May god's rest Last Line: Or here or there. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ON NIGHT, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now murky shades surround the pole; / darkness lords without controul Last Line: That fall upon the drooping yews. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Stars; Supernatural; Bedtime ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night or light is it now, wherein Last Line: That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Night; Soul; Dead, The; English; Bedtime ON THE ENGINE BY NIGHT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the engine in the night-time, with the darkness all around Last Line: I grew prouder of my labour and my little gift of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains ON THE LATIN AMERICAN HARP: 1. NIGHTFALL IN THE TROPICS, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is twilight grey and gloomy Last Line: The lion's roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Night; Tropics; Bedtime ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: A DREAM, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Some fair retirement where always Last Line: Some books with horace's fair lines. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST: NIGHT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the gloom of the night with the wind and the rain Last Line: Howling in, beating in from the desolate main. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Night; Storms; Bedtime ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGES (TO W.M.C.), by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girders of iron; bridges wrought of steel Last Line: The onrush—passed—and all was night again. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains ONE DAY, by GRACE NOER SHERBURNE Poem Text First Line: Gold! The yellow buttercups upon the Last Line: So clear and sweet, while all the twilight world is rose and gray. Subject(s): Farewell; Night; Parting; Bedtime ONE NIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see. Gone now is all that brightness Last Line: Calls, and each silence deeper sounds for song that was. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime ONE NIGHT, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One lily scented all the dark. It grew Last Line: And through the heavenly meadows fled away. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ONE OF THE SMALLEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of the first grey light Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Fancy; Bedtime ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND SIERRA NIGHT, by SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE Poem Text First Line: Sweet scent of blossoms, through the canyons wide Last Line: I walk with still, in orange blossom scent. Subject(s): Night; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Bedtime ORGAN SONGS: ANTIPHON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylight fades away Last Line: Dwelleth in his men. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; God; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice." Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime ORGAN SONGS: THE HOLY MIDNIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, holy midnight of the soul Last Line: Diest and liv'st again. Subject(s): God; Night; Bedtime OUR CAMP; IN THE AUTUMN WOODS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a haunt in the depths of the forest Last Line: To strand on the sands of sleep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! But the darkness was densely Last Line: And that was the dawn -- the dawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Night; Sunrise; World; Bedtime OUT OF THE SUNSET'S RED, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OUTER DRIVE AT NIGHT (CHICAGO), by MARTHA F. SIMMONDS Poem Text First Line: The waves dash at the piled stones in frenzy Last Line: I would drink deeply of this night. Subject(s): Chicago; Night; Bedtime OUTLET, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Sometime when oft I revel Last Line: Lo! No escape. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking OUTWARD BOUND, by ETHEL ALLEN MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Freighted with fancy, golden, frail Last Line: Into the night—away! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OVER THE MAY HILL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the night time, and all through the day time Last Line: My heart and my love will be lying ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Hearts; Love; May (month); Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PACK-TRIP SUITE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is revery awake Last Line: Quiet admits the dark intense. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Camping; Night; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime PALACE OF THE BABIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place Subject(s): Night; Loneliness; Babies; Bedtime; Infants PARIS AT NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: It is the sea: dead calm - and the spring tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue . . . With his eyes wide open! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night; Paris, France; Bedtime PARIS BY NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Tis the sea - calm surface. - and the great tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue—with staring eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Calm; Night; Paris, France; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime PARKED CARS AT NIGHT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All night / every night Last Line: Pawing in the dark cars. Subject(s): Automobiles; Night; Cars; Bedtime PARKS AND PONDS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parks & ponds are good by day Last Line: The sleeps of trees or dreams of herbs Subject(s): Night; Bedtime PASSIONATE DOWSABELLA: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The pears were in the perry Last Line: And dowsabella's cry is still -- and is she still in pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Love; Moon; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PAST MIDNIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Creep through the duckweed Subject(s): Ice; Night; Bedtime PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: DITTY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Obscure and dark is all the gloomy air Last Line: Black discontent doth make her bad repair. Subject(s): Mythology; Night; Bedtime PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime PHANTOM, by GUANETTA GRANT GORDON Poem Text First Line: Last night when the moon was free Last Line: Beneath the pale moonglow of night. Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime PHILOSOPHY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn the wise man walked abroad Last Line: "jehovah, god, save thou my child." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; God; Night; Philosophy & Philosophers; Bedtime PILLOW FAIRIES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen those fairy people Last Line: I will be the last to blame ye! Subject(s): Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime PINE TREE TOPS, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue night Subject(s): Night; Pine Trees; Rabbits; Deer; Bedtime; Hares PIXIES AT THE POOL, by RICHARD POMFRET Poem Text First Line: Look below into the pool's Last Line: And flee at dawn's first light. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Water; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime PLUS ULTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Last Line: Far beyond. Subject(s): Day; Heaven; Night; Roundels; Soul; Paradise; Bedtime POEM, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nights soft armor welds me into thought Last Line: Its steady course. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime POEM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit / / ikes to dress up like this Subject(s): Night; Bedtime POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excepting the diner Last Line: Had the light on Subject(s): Night; Bedtime POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What about moonlight Last Line: What about the moonlight Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 12. AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind seems like a prayer Last Line: Unanswered everywhere. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 20. MIST AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have they become this wraith Last Line: Of weary sad unfaith? Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 26. LOST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild geese find their way Last Line: Yet I cannot by day. Subject(s): Geese; Night; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 7. IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ghost-dreams that rise Last Line: Or only the fire-flies? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dreams; Graves; Night; Graveyards; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose blood runs gay as summer's Last Line: One of your kith and kind. Subject(s): Blood; Hearts; Night; Bedtime PUCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was puck! I saw him yesternight Last Line: Of starshine sharpened on his batwing shoe. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Night; Elves; Bedtime PUPPET-MAKER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his fear of solitude, he made us. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Solitude; Night; Loneliness; Bedtime QUATORZAINS: 5. TO NIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So thou art come again, old black-winged night Last Line: And tomb time, death, and substance in thy maw. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 2. DESPAIR, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Now cracks the dead heart's ashen core in twain Last Line: Plunged to abysmal night. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Bedtime QUEEN OF NIGHT, by ARTHUR E. JENNER Poem Text First Line: Full often have I stood at close of day Last Line: And she had gone. Subject(s): Fantasy; Night; Bedtime REACTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heart, sink into yourself and rally Last Line: Return to your solitude, oh heart! Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Night; Railroads; Woods; Bedtime; Railways; Trains RECOLLECTIONS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Last Line: Years upon years. Subject(s): Love; Night; Roundels; Stars; Bedtime RECOVERING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream of the world Subject(s): Night; Bedtime REFRAIN, by ALICE PHELPS RIDER Poem Text First Line: The night was dark and still and deeply young Last Line: Where tears had not been shed nor songs been sung. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime REMEMBERING THE DARK, by ROSALIE GOODYEAR Poem Text First Line: I'd like to be the lightning Last Line: In the soft black night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime RENAISSANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still we hear it Last Line: Of those that worship the sun! Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime RENDEZVOUS: BELLE GLADE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pine thicket at the edge of a clearing Last Line: And nerves edged a name in his stock. Subject(s): Burma; Guns; Night; Soldiers; Bedtime REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean REQUIESCAT, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text 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 RESIGNATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark house yonder is my life Last Line: Life's dark intent, joy's fitful glow. Subject(s): Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime REST, by FRANCES BELLE DELZELL Poem Text First Line: Twilight / and evening star / and night's velvet Last Line: Welcome me. Subject(s): Evening; Night; Rest; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime REVIEW, by WILLIAM GREENOUGH SCHOFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now we find no room for sentiment Last Line: The pounding rumble of new england surf! Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime RHESUS: NIGHT WATCH, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, whose is the watch? Who exchanges Last Line: Of dawn is so near. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KNAVE OF BERGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusseldorf castle on the rhine Last Line: Though now they all underground are! Subject(s): Faces; Masks; Night; Rhine (river), Europe; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VOYAGE BY NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-moon peer'd from the darksome clouds Last Line: Our number then was two. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 8. PIOUS WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou dost quit this mortal abode Last Line: Soft slippers, sweet music, and rest thou'lt find. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Night; Dead, The; Paradise; Bedtime RONDEL, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: It's dark, child, snatcher of sparks! Last Line: It's dark, child, snatcher of sparks! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ROSY-POSY, by ANN AUGUSTA GRAY CARTER Poem Text First Line: Rosy, my posy Last Line: And hush-a-by baby with me. Subject(s): Grandmothers; Bedtime ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jazz radio on a midnight kick Last Line: Round about midnight Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Bedtime SATURDAY NIGHT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here it comes: around the world Last Line: Out of their gourds, invent the sacred dance Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL Poem Text First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love. Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues SEA-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago. Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime SEA-PICTURES; OFF THE HAVEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up stole a fog, a chill and ghastly thing Last Line: Lay green and glad beyond the waters gray. Subject(s): Fog; Night; Sea; Soul; Haze; Bedtime; Ocean SECTION GANG: NIGHT, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Gandy dancers sleep all night Last Line: But he wouldn't know ... Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains SECURITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday smiles to hear Last Line: As fathomless as gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Noon; Bedtime SEPTEMBER DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air falls chill Last Line: O dews, weep on uncomforted! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Night; September; Bedtime SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the forest Last Line: Each in the other's love blest. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SERENADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The leaves in the shadows Last Line: The silence sing for me. Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Bedtime SERENADE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stars, with trailing galaxies Last Line: Dreaming a dream of me! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SERENADE - TO NORA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight is failin' Last Line: And light up the night where the heart av me's gropin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Bedtime SESTINA AT 3 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the imperfect dark Subject(s): Night; Insomnia; Longing; Bedtime; Sleeplessness SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere Last Line: "a lantern, which he does not know is out." Subject(s): Night; Trees; Bedtime SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 2, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now by the wall of the ancient town I lean Last Line: And something that may be leaves or may be sea. Variant Title(s): Twilight: Rye, Sussex Subject(s): Night; Rye, England; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 4, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour,' she said, 'of transmutation' Last Line: "gathers the stars together and goes out." Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime SHADOW, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though -- statued to a savage innocence Last Line: Night stretching a vast cross of ebony. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Bedtime SHADOWS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: I am here, the other elsewhere, the silence seems to live Last Line: I must pray, for it is the hour of the sovereign of the world. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Religion; Shadows; Silence; Bedtime; Theology SHADOWS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the year were june Last Line: How could I weep? Subject(s): June; Night; Bedtime SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHEET-LIGHTNING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glance of love or jealousy Last Line: A step without a sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SHREWSBURY NIGHT, by CHARLES WARE BORDEN Poem Text First Line: I love the stillness of the night Last Line: The whole world as it ought to be. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime SIDE BY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you asleep? Not really. Subject(s): Night; Relationships; Bedtime SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands and thousands of Last Line: And came tiptoeing toward me down the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaos; Night; Silence; Bedtime SILVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, silently, now the moon Last Line: By silver reeds in a silver stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silver; Bedtime SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make ready fair lady to night Last Line: And leave my old daddy asleep. Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind love, to this hour Last Line: And more blest her eyes that first taught me desire. Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, thou kindest minister to man Last Line: Since death be but an endless, dreamless sleep? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor pain-worn mortal, dost thou weep? Last Line: God must be good. For god made sleep. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: The day's spent life goes out with night Last Line: For only themselves to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft silence of the summer night Last Line: Of love intense. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou drowsy god, whose blurred Last Line: Swallows and licks its wet lips over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Orphans; Sleep; Bedtime; Foundlings SLEEP, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Come, sleep, thou languid, lovely child of night Last Line: Of heaven into care's domain, o sleep! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: To sleep! To float upon a dreamless wave! Last Line: Far out to calm upon the ocean's night. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEPING AND WAKING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night someone is trying to tell you something. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unmoved by what the wind does Subject(s): Night; Anxiety; Bedtime SLEEPY HARRY, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like to go to bed Last Line: Oh, he'd be glad to go to bed. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SLEET STORM, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: There is a thought that haunts me in the night Last Line: Is pain the only soil where splendor grows? Subject(s): Affliction; Beauty; Ice; Night; Storms; Bedtime SLUMBER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one! The twilight folds her gloom Last Line: Of rapture perfected. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SOLITAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Purer than the day new-born Last Line: Come soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep is the night -- so deep Last Line: And let it be for love! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONG, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: Mr. Mirror / clothier Last Line: It is dark night in paris Subject(s): Dadaism; Night; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Bedtime SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love laid his sleepless head Last Line: But day shall bring back delight. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Bedtime SONG (3), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou to me art such a spring Last Line: Lightens thro' his veins, and he is gone! Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime SONG (4), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower unfolds its dawning cup Last Line: Wake us in each other's arms? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Bedtime SONG AGAINST NIGHT, by RUTH FORBES SHERRY Poem Text First Line: Of this, indeed, be sure, even though reason Last Line: A dissonance that warns the sea-bird home. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONG BY THE WINDOW BEFORE BED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little star, little star Last Line: Gone -- all gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime SONG DIALOGUE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so, my dear Last Line: "now that day's begun." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime SONG FOR A LYRE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape where I lie Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Love; Bedtime SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the noon of night Last Line: Holding the new-won crown above his saintly head. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Light; Night; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs SONG IN THE NIGHT, by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM Poem Text First Line: Streets to left, and streets to right Last Line: Would I were a guest within! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONG TO A WELCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in silent brightness Last Line: Oh come, my love, to me! Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONG TO A WELCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mourn not the forest whose verdure is dying Last Line: But the friend of my bosom returns not to me. Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 3. COUNTRY NIGHTFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are no paths when the snow comes Last Line: For a man come home again. Subject(s): Home; Night; Snow; Wind; Bedtime SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course there's a tree to listen to Last Line: And that is a thousand pities. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sound; Bedtime SONGS OF NEW YORK: FIFTH AVENUE AT NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's Last Line: Tread of far feet. Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Night; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon Last Line: Till I am old no more. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day Last Line: I pass into thy spring. Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreary wind of night is out Last Line: With stars that shine and see. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE FIRST WATCH. TIRED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I would tell you more, but I am tired Last Line: O, I am tired! Subject(s): Life; Light; Love; Night; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal-light flashes east Last Line: And all the stars above. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean SONGS TUNELESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He kisses me! Ah, now, at last Last Line: And rake the ashes over it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Youth; Bedtime SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 19, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since we your husband daily see Last Line: With thy insipid fool. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Jealousy; Night; Passion; Bedtime SONNET, by MARY LOCKE Poem Full Text First Line: Tis dead of night; storms rend the troubled air Alternate Author Name(s): Mister, Mrs. William Subject(s): Night; Virtue; Bedtime SONNET, by MARY LOCKE Poem Text First Line: I hate the spring in parti-coloured vest Last Line: All nature mourn, and share my misery. Alternate Author Name(s): Mister, Mrs. William Subject(s): Night; Virtue; Bedtime SONNET, by SEMEDO Poem Text First Line: It is a fearful night Last Line: I never saw so beautiful a night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONNET TO NIGHT, by LOIS MAHAVIER Poem Text First Line: Night is earth's conscience; when her sombre veil Last Line: That conscience need no longer tribute pay! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONNET TO NIGHT, by JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious night! When our first parent knew [or, the first man but knew] Last Line: If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life? Alternate Author Name(s): Blanco, Jose Maria Variant Title(s): To Night;night;night And Death Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONNET: 1. THE BRIGHT MOON, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad on the sunburnt hill the bright moon comes Last Line: This god of myriad stars whom I thought lost. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONNET: 10, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the hostel by the bridge, I sate Last Line: With ineffectual ardour sought to rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 7. JOHN WEBSTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder: the flesh quails, and the soul bows down Last Line: Shapes here and there of child and mother pass. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Webster, John (1580-1625); Bedtime SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 6, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid your throng, I watch you hold Last Line: Only the splendour of your loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Friendship; Night; English; Bedtime SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime SOULS LAKE, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evergreen shadow and the pale magnolia Last Line: And infinite still the discourse of the night. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness SOUNDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitudinous murmurings of day! Last Line: As myrmidons of night and parts of her. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Sound; Woods; Bedtime SPIRITUAL RADIO, by ELLEN BURNS SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: When man to man may waft across the world Last Line: The orisons that wing the silent night? Subject(s): Faith; Night; Prayer; Belief; Creed; Bedtime SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SPRING NIGHT, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: Pale moon-shafts strike the swiftly greening hills Last Line: Nor be engulfed in fierce red fire of day! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime STAR DUST, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Deep in the mellow afterglow Last Line: And light. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime STARRY NIGHT, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I followed in the unfathomable dark Last Line: That of all things alone will not be gone. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime STARS, by NAN ROADS Poem Text First Line: A sheet of blue white Last Line: In the arms of the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime STARS ON THE WATER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Stars on the water, - on my soul, thine eyes Last Line: To keep thy light unclouded through the days. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime STILL NIGHT, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: Still night - only the tap of trees Last Line: Except when the heart remembers. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime STORY-TIME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us a story,' comes the cry Last Line: To go to bed at 9 o'clock. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Night; Bedtime STUDIES FOR PICTURES: 3. UNDER THE STARS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the hot revel's fever dies Last Line: Without, the god that speaks in souls! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SUBTROPICAL NIGHT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion is upstanding overhead Last Line: A cadillac prowls by, in search of sleep Subject(s): Florida; Night; Bedtime SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in the orchard that night Last Line: As an apple. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Christianity; Crows; Fruit; Night; Bedtime SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUITE TO FATHERS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in nevada I sat on a boulder at twilight Last Line: Night stares down with her great bruised eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Bedtime SUMMER DAWN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some summer mornings - when you've taken tea Last Line: Has opened. Let the bards of old go rest. Subject(s): Animals; Morning; Night; Poetry & Poets; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Like a bell note shivered into fragments of fine sound Last Line: Insistently, a futile blow. Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT, by CLARA CATHERINE PRINCE Poem Text First Line: Here where the green has surrounded the lapping waters Last Line: Spirit, direct me! Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL Poem Text First Line: A hilltop is a witching place Last Line: On herald wings comes whispering. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS OF CERTAIN MELODIES: 1. ANDANTE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the full-blown linden and the plane Last Line: But nothing sleeps, though rest seems everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Summer; Bedtime SUNCONSCIOUS AWAKENING, by JOHN HARSEN RHOADES Poem Text First Line: Some fancies bloom at three a.M. Last Line: And put those blooms away. Subject(s): Cold; Night; Bedtime SUNDAY NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossing throughout this tense and / nervous night Last Line: Groping, with restless anger, for a prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by SUSIE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky Last Line: Are made into one body by the light of god. Subject(s): Churches; Dawn; Night; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Bedtime SUNSET, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Waves majestic Last Line: Calmly silvering into night. Subject(s): Calm; Night; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUPREME UNCTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the eternal night Last Line: And in the end come back to me? Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime SYMBOLS (2), by VANCE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime TARA-BINDU, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the breeze falls asleep Last Line: Behind the emerald screen of the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Rest; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean TBOUGHT'S END, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd watched the hills drink the last colour of light Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TENEBRAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the chill high tide of the night Last Line: "spirit, and saviour, and life." Subject(s): Life; Night; Salvation; Soul; Bedtime THAT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You and I, and that night, with its perfume and glory Last Line: My rival who found us, and waltzed you away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): June; Love; Night; Violins; Bedtime THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE AFTER SILENCES, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves Last Line: And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more. Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence; Bedtime THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented Last Line: That I'm forsaken. Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs THE AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Subject(s): Solitude; Night; Restaurants; City & Town Life; Love; Bedtime; Cafes; Diners THE AWAKENING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So it has come to you, dear Last Line: Wait for the days to be. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE BAT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river of sorrow Last Line: As daylight is darkness to thee. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Bedtime THE BAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dread, uncanny thing Last Line: Grate not thy teeth at me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime THE BIRDS' LULLABY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping Last Line: And we drowse to your dreamy whispering. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Cedar Trees; Night; Bedtime THE BIRDS: THE HYMN OF THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness Last Line: That we are to you all as the manifest godhead that speaks in prophetic apollo? Variant Title(s): Grand Chorus Of Birds;chorus Of Birds Subject(s): Apollo; Birds; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime THE BLACK PANTHER, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the clouds there spreads a rosy lustre Last Line: Beneath the forest aisle. Subject(s): Hunting; Night; Panthers; Hunters; Bedtime THE BREATH OF NIGHT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rises. The red cubs rolling Last Line: That we were unwilling to trade for this? Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the crisp of fall Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime THE BURIED FLOWER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of my chamber Last Line: Breaks o'er deathless paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mourning; Night; Bereavement; Bedtime THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CANDLE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By my bed, on a little round table Last Line: The three dreams started singing a little song. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Candles; Night; Bedtime THE CHILD AND THE ROSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the rose: I would that I Last Line: Dead, with a baby at her breast. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Night; Roses; Winter; Childhood; Bedtime THE CHILD ASLEEP, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's over england? A cloud. What's over france? A flame Subject(s): War; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE CHILDREN'S BEDTIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The clock strikes seven in the hall Last Line: And light us on to god and heaven Subject(s): Children;night; Childhood;bedtime THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To night the sleeper Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!" Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE COMMON LOT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Call it not vain, this life Last Line: Strength to prevail! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nations; Night; Peace; Bedtime THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a barren tree before Last Line: In the darkness of the blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Blindness; Night; Solitude; Trees; Visually Handicapped; Bedtime; Loneliness THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe Last Line: The silent stars above the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime THE COWS AT NIGHT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was like a full cup tonight Last Line: Very gently it began to rain Subject(s): Cows; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was up and I was young Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DARK VISITOR, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: She waits for me at night Last Line: Shamefaced, she slinks away. Subject(s): Guests; Love Affairs; Night; Visiting; Bedtime THE DAWN OF DARKNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come earth's little children pit-pat from their Last Line: Hope departed with the twilight, leaving only dumb despair. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Night; World; Bedtime THE DECEIT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to istral where the sea sweeps / in Last Line: For a witch, god wot, had snared me in the semblance of a maid! Subject(s): Duplicity; Lust; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Deceit; Bedtime THE DEMON DAWN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The twilight came to soothe my furrowed care Last Line: And shatter all the happiness I know? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Silence; Nightmares; Bedtime THE DEVIL IN THE NIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With ruby eyes a-peer the devil, all night long, stalks squeaking mice Last Line: All night long in the gale. Subject(s): Devil; Love; Night; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bedtime THE DIAL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dreamer in the dark, I grow Last Line: "behold, thy kingdom too must fall." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue THE DOME OF STARS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the purple of the night Last Line: All the forest murmurs low. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE DREAM OF A DREAMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed that I Last Line: Of one whose soul is dead Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;dreams;night; Nightmares;bedtime THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere Last Line: "thy kingdom come." Subject(s): Dreams; God; Immortality; Night; Vision; Nightmares; Bedtime THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies Last Line: On the darkening green. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime THE ELDRICH DARK, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Last Line: Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime THE END, by BYRON HAVERLY BLACKFORD Poem Text First Line: The day is passing Last Line: But what matters? Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime THE END OF THE STORY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After dressing up out of a dress-up basket Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Night; Bedtime THE ENGINE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the gloom of the deep, dark night Last Line: Alone will carry you through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Night; Soul; Truth; Destiny; Bedtime THE EVENING STAR, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the sunset sky Last Line: Living again in thy life and thy light. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime THE EXPECTED OF NATIONS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While shepherd stars their nightly vigils keep Last Line: Again is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE FACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow spaces I see a face Last Line: If you should move! Subject(s): Faces; Fear; Lips; Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FAIRY'S SPELL, by FREDERICK W. POOLE Poem Text First Line: Hearkene ye and heede me welle Last Line: And softly whisper low. Subject(s): Fairies; Immortality; Night; Elves; Bedtime THE FIRST NIGHT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Death; Bedtime; Dead, The THE FIRST NIGHT, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls, soothing to lascivious old men Last Line: Of those who will spend their first night there. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE FLOWER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not see at that hour Last Line: The blindness -- the blindness -- that ruined me! Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Moon; Night; Rain; Destiny; Bedtime THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who hath known her - like as I Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Bedtime THE FOREFATHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the country inn Last Line: Surges hot through my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Pain; Peace; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery THE FOUNDLING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the wandering mother night Last Line: Went vanishing away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Orphans; Bedtime; Foundlings THE GENTLE SAVAGE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go down, my soul, unto the river Last Line: Love's planet thrilling. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime THE GIRL WITH EIGHTEEN NIGHTGOWNS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And each one to the advantage of her breasts Last Line: That only come out at night. Subject(s): Breasts; Clothing & Dress; Girls; Night; Bedtime THE GNAT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: One night all tyred wth ye weary day Last Line: All feare. Subject(s): Gnats; Mortality; Night; Bedtime THE GOLDEN ROD, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is the morning of the year Last Line: Will go and put the torches out! Subject(s): Goldenrod; Night; Seasons; Bedtime THE GREAT DIVIDE, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I drift out on the silver sea Last Line: When I drift out on the silver sea. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE GUESTS OF NIGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ride in a gloomy land Last Line: And the loves that are, remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Guests; Love; Night; Dead, The; Visiting; Bedtime THE HARPS OF DAVID, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Spacious, splendid and pacific, the vast night unrolled before us Last Line: Were spanned by the vast soul of god outspread above us both. Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Night; Lyres; Bedtime THE HAUNTED MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still closer doth she cowl with night Last Line: To all but her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime THE HEAVENS AT NIGHT, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: I love to lie at eventime Last Line: Of god's celestial truth. Subject(s): Admiration; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Bedtime THE HERETIC, by MARJORIE LEICHNER Poem Text First Line: Drifting and stumbling through the rain-drenched night Last Line: On his slab of granite: peace is for the dead. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the people and horses have gone Last Line: It whispers the world-secret. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the unquiet hours depart Last Line: Beckon the wounded spirit in. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Calm; Night; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime THE HUNGRY KNIGHT, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Palest shadow on the middle rock Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE IMPEACHMENT OF NIGHT, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time bright phoebus doth not stretch and bend Last Line: That one poor firefly can her might appal. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE INGRATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Night upon her darkling ways Last Line: Westward fled away to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insomnia; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE KATYDIDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I keep Last Line: Mommy dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Night; Noises; Sleep; Bedtime THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE LAST DREAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In a dismal room in a city garret high Last Line: What misery when death becomes a hope! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LAST SAINT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With vesture torn and air forlorn Last Line: "still justifies my quest." Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Saints; Soul; Bedtime THE LIGHT OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds have deepened o'er the Last Line: With love and laughter here? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Light; Love; Night; Wind; Bedtime THE LISTENERS: NIGHT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That shining moon - watched by that one faint star Last Line: And only the lovelier for continuing strange. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE LITTLE CONQUEROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight; not a sound was heard Last Line: Tears fall and mingle with her own Subject(s): Children;night; Childhood;bedtime THE LITTLE WINDOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little window's open wide Last Line: It lets its own warm shining out. Subject(s): Darkness; January; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE LOST LAGOON, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is dusk on the lost lagoon Last Line: In the hush of the golden moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lagoons; Night; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships; Joy; Delight; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 43, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two flowers in a letter Last Line: Nothing else Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I waited through the night, while summer blew Last Line: Almost too great to bear my bliss appeared! Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime THE MARRIAGE NOCTURNE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopped at a corner, near midnight, I watch Last Line: World that we cannot heal, that is our bride Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE MILKY WAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Once there was a little dream Last Line: That's hanging up there still. Subject(s): Cosmology; March (month); Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime THE MOON, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gently night steals on, and deep'ning shades Last Line: Thou givest peace and sweet forgetfulness! Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Night; Peace; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking THE MOON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful moon, with thy silvery light Last Line: To catch the rabbits and the hares. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE MOON, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: The lady of the night Last Line: And picking stars to wear. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime THE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldn't it begin at midnight Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE MOONLIGHT'S DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I wake at night, all the house at rest? Subject(s): Family Life; Sleep; Dreams; Night; Relatives; Nightmares; Bedtime THE MUTE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun seemed fair as Last Line: Sang gloriously. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Speech Disorders; Bedtime; Stuttering; Muteness THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard. Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean THE NAMING OF MY FAIR, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When night is come and lovers meet Last Line: And call you -- my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Lutes; Night; Soul; Stars; Bedtime THE NIGHT, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put aside the branches Last Line: And the world sank away. . . . Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the pure virgin-shrine Last Line: Might live invisible and dim! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Jesus Christ; Night; Religion; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Theology THE NIGHT FOR SLEEP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When daylight came Last Line: The night for sleep! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT LIGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there is no moon Last Line: Has flown away! Subject(s): Beds; Children; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime THE NIGHT OF PLEASURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With pleasure-seeking folk Last Line: Or at least give them sleep! Subject(s): London; Night; Pleasure; Bedtime THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night Last Line: His freedom shall not end. Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NIGHT PIECE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The prophetic raven brings Last Line: Where everlasting sunshine reigns. Subject(s): God; Nature; Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT SO BRIGHT A SQUIRREL READS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT-JAR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the river, in the shallows, on the shore Last Line: Which is death. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Nature; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE NIGHT-PIECE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes [or, lamp] the glow-worm lend thee Last Line: My soule I'le pour into thee! Variant Title(s): On A Dark Road;serenade Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Erotic; Fireflies; Love; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime THE NIGHT-WALK, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awakes for me and leaps from shroud Last Line: Whereon was love the phantom sail. Subject(s): Aging; Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT; A DIALOGUE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if night Last Line: And night, with these joys crown'd, outshine the day. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small light, fugitive, peers Last Line: Shreds minute from minute? Subject(s): Watchmen; Night; Bedtime THE OLD, OLD WISH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, in some lost mood of Last Line: "when will my wish come true?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Vision; Wishes; Bedtime THE OLDEST CHILD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night still frightens you. Subject(s): Night; Children; Bedtime; Childhood THE OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Experience; Bedtime THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world Last Line: Forever near, yet oh how far! Subject(s): Beauty; Future; Life; Night; Past; Bedtime THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 194, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitude of stars is the late night's light Last Line: Hanging in the sky is my mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Light; Night; Bedtime THE POET'S JOURNAL: MORNING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text 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 THE POOL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has fallen into my heart Last Line: Through night's bars.' Subject(s): Hearts; Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime THE QUESTION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May darkness write the words dawn must not read? Last Line: But dare not breathe their message to the rose. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THE QUIET NIGHTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of my low desert Last Line: And name my lovely nights of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; God; Night; Quiet Life; Sleep; Bedtime THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE RESTLESS NIGHT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god help me now to cry out and bear witness Last Line: Hush; the day comes: wherein no man speaks Subject(s): God; Night; Bedtime THE RIVER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What may the gray gull know Last Line: That glide on the sable stream. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Night; Rivers; Bedtime THE ROMAUNT OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and the moonbeam sleeps Last Line: The humpty up again. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SAME GOOSE MOON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peach sky / at sunset Last Line: Of the big october moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SATURNIAN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I must follow it high and low Last Line: And from my birth have I been such. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Flowers; God; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime THE SEARCHLIGHT, by DOROTHEA LAMORE Poem Text First Line: Out of the dark a yellow light Last Line: Earth has all secrets you want to know? Subject(s): Earth; Light; Night; Sky; World; Bedtime THE SETTING SUN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One radiant outflash of surpassing splendour Last Line: The sun steps down into the unknown night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SHPEHERD'S HOUR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is red through horizon's fog Last Line: Pale, venus appears, and it is night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SIGN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no magic numbers or magic lives Last Line: You do not need the stars for that. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Magic; Night; Vision; Bedtime THE SIGN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often at night something asks Last Line: And the snake coiled bleeding at its center. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THE SIGN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not centaur nor archer but man Last Line: Bounding away into his green clear music. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Mythology; Night; Bedtime THE SINGING SILENCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory Last Line: Come: the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE SKY-GYPSY, by WALTER BARDECK Poem Text First Line: I long / to sweep the sky Last Line: On some strange shore. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Seashore; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SLEEPING WORLD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is asleep, all the cares of the day Last Line: While night holds its breath, and all nature is still. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Celestials must have piloted Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime THE SONG OF NIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come to thee, o earth! Last Line: I am the solemn night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime THE STARLIGHT NIGHT, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies Last Line: Christ home, christ and his mother and all his hallows. Subject(s): Night; Supernatural; Bedtime THE STARRY NIGHT SHALL TIDINGS BRING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE STREET BEHIND YOURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night droops down upon the street Last Line: And the gutter grumbling down! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Urban Life; Bedtime THE SUNBEAM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder from the land of light Last Line: Climb back again to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Religion; Bedtime; Theology THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chill and abandoned, the pavillion Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The absorbent, glimmering night Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime THE THISTLE; A LEGENDARY BALLAD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight! Darkness, like the gloom of some funereal pall Last Line: Hath scotland's honour tarnished been—god grant it ne'er may be! Subject(s): France; Night; Scotland; Thistles; War; Bedtime THE THREE MAIDENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three maidens met on the highway Last Line: O the nightingale is dying for its mate. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Night; Nightingales; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bedtime THE THREE POPLARS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE Poem Text First Line: I shall have three grey poplar trees above me when I sleep Last Line: But upright as the staff of one who watcheth o'er his sheep. Subject(s): Night; Poplar Trees; Sleep; Bedtime THE TRAITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Judas am I, or peter Last Line: And my love looking at me! Subject(s): Betrayal; Faces; Fate; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Love; Night; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Silver; Destiny; Bedtime THE TREASURE OF THE WISE MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the night was dark and the night was late Last Line: When the robbers came to rob him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Night; Treasures; Bedtime THE TRYST OF THE NIGHT, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the uttermost ridge of dusk Last Line: One with each other, I and the night, and the skies, and the stars, and sea. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE TWIN-SOUL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dead of the night a spirit came Last Line: O spirit-enchantress, o demon-will! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Night; Soul; Dead, The; Bedtime THE TWO STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Day has her star, as well as night Last Line: That earth receives its dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Day; Night; Stars; Bedtime THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VESPER CHIME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spirit comes to me Last Line: And sounds the vesper chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime THE VOICE FROM THE GRAY MOON, by DONALD CHESTER EWING Poem Text First Line: The gray moon stretches wide her arms Last Line: And given the sword whereby they fall! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Voices; Bedtime THE VOICES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the night I hear them Last Line: Laughs in the shadow-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Secrets; Voices; Bedtime THE VOYAGER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus-like, I sailed into the night Last Line: Life's indies lay behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips THE WAITRESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She brings a drink to the table Last Line: Beyond these late-night, practically empty streets Subject(s): Life; Night; Waiting; Bedtime THE WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking; Bedtime; Theology THE WANDERING JEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are failing, and the sky Last Line: That I have any need of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Night; Time; Wandering Jew; Bedtime THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the waiting in the watches of Last Line: In the waning of the watches of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Night; Soul; Waiting; Belief; Creed; Bedtime THE WATCHMAN, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what of the night? Last Line: "to be christened at morning chime." Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE WATCHMAN AND THE NIGHT: THE NIGHT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what of the night? Last Line: For us is ended, and we rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE WATCHMAN'S REPORT, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, tell us of the night Last Line: Lo! The son of god is come. Variant Title(s): What Of The Night? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Night; Bedtime THE WHITE OWL, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: He comes in the twilight Last Line: The antiquity of night. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Bedtime THE WINDS OF DAY AND NIGHT, by RUSSELL LORD Poem Text First Line: Awake! Away! / urges the wind today Last Line: And the mothering winds of night sweep on! Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime THE WITCH OF ERKMURDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who cantereth forth in the night Last Line: "away with my babe and bride." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE WORLD ASLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking by night, a great and tender thought Last Line: One in the father's watch and ward of love. Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Sin; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THIS NIGHT ONLY (ERIC SATIE: GYMNOPEDIE #1), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Variant Title(s): This Night Only Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime THREE NIGHT SONGS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He waits to happen with the clear Last Line: So bright and clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THREE NIGHT SONGS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving in liquid dark Last Line: But to freeze until another glacier comes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Night; Water; Bedtime THREE NIGHT SONGS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mask riddles itself Last Line: A music comes to the point of horror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Masks; Night; Bedtime THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 3. LOVE CALL, by WILLIAM A. BEATTY Poem Text First Line: The moon is casting Last Line: Romance of night? Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THREE WOOD SONGS: 3. CHORALE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches of the sky bend grandly in the night wind Last Line: And splendor endures, and the glory of stars is forever. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wind; Bedtime THRENODY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year Last Line: Take: the best we can give is breath. Subject(s): Death; England; Life; Night; Dead, The; English; Bedtime THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; AFTER INGMAR BERGMAN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are out bathing in the sea at night Last Line: Who escort us to and from shock therapy... Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Family Life; Happiness; Night; Sea; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Ocean THROUGH THE DARK, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk's orisons / are sable swans Last Line: It is morn. Subject(s): Dusk; Night; Shadows; Bedtime TILL DAWN, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: I walked through a waste with a deep pervading drear Last Line: And sweep of light with thrilling hope and day. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips TO AN EVENING SHADE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pilgrim, ever yearning for the east Last Line: "the morning's sacrifice." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TO ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lids of dusk are falling Last Line: As tranquil a delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Night; Whipporwills; Bedtime TO CHRISTINA AT NIGHTFALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little thing, ah, little mouse Last Line: Ah, sweet! Do you the like where I lie dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime TO DELIA: 45, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night Last Line: And never wake to feel the day's disdain. Variant Title(s): "to Delia: 51;sonnet On Sleep;to Delia: 49;""care-charmer Sleepe, Sonne Of The Sable Night""; Subject(s): Despair; Love; Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime TO FIFTH AVENUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful, long, loved avenue! Last Line: Where thy gaslights leave off or the starlights begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Light; Night; Bedtime TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime TO M. W., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind, gentle friend, brought strangely low Last Line: As dances at her heart to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Life; Night; Seasons; Bedtime TO MILTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As well house up the homeless bedouin stars Last Line: Thou nomad of god's universal night! Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Tears; Bedtime TO NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o night, o jealous night, repugnant to my measures [or pleasures]" Last Line: Wherein my love had eyes that lighted my delight Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TO NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly walk o'er the western wave Last Line: Come soon, soon! Variant Title(s): Night;to The Night Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Bedtime TO NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved wind and light Last Line: Fade when the darkness brings the stars. Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime TO SLEEP AND TO FORGET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep and to forget, -- o blessed guerdon! Last Line: To sleep and to forget. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TO THE LAND OF SLEEP, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Night shades are falling, gone is the day Last Line: Like the love that comes from above. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flooded are the brakes and dell Last Line: Make the night so drear. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale are filled by thee Last Line: In the night alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale thou fill'st again Last Line: Boldly into night. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOONBEAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonbeam, leave the shadowy vale Last Line: Seem in my breast but joys to the pangs that rankle there. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TO THE MOONLIGHT HOUR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of the pensive hours Last Line: Welcome to our cambrian bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Wales; Bedtime; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO THE NIGHTJAR, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When the moon hangs high in the heavens Last Line: Till thy song comes over the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nature; Night; Nightjars; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) TO-NIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bend low, o dusky night Last Line: Enfold me in your arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TOIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had toiled away for a weary Last Line: "but toil is sweeter than all things else." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Labor & Laborers; Love; Night; Soul; Work; Workers; Bedtime TOM O' BEDLAM'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the hagg and hungrie goblin Last Line: "yet will I sing, etc." Variant Title(s): Loving Mad Tom Subject(s): Insanity;night; Madness;mental Illness;bedtime TONIGHT, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS Poem Text First Line: Tonight, while man and nature one accord encloses Last Line: Flames of marble, as they dance under torches in the gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice Subject(s): Night; Time; Bedtime TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NIGHT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness o'erhead, around Last Line: Folding and brooding all the land in silence. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime TRACKING THE NIGHT CREATURE, by SCOTT CHISHOLM Poem Text First Line: At the end of the pasture, / blackness sits in a velvet crouch Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TRACKS, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's been getting at these subway cars at night Subject(s): Night; Paintings And Painters; Subways; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 6, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: At top of the thinnest steeple-spire Last Line: And whispers and waves in the drafty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Lips; Night; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGIC NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, and a glare of lamps set in the rain Last Line: But living holds hell's infinite distress. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TRIUMPHANT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I wandered lonely in the night Last Line: And sweep away the swarm of stars above us. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can life be a blessing Last Line: When we hope, when we hope to be happy again. Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs TUESDAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no lovers in the park tonight. O no Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TWILIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light is horror and darkness beauty - only in the vague hours where they mingle Last Line: Contemplating in its perfect constancy their own unconsciousness. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TWILIGHT CHEER, by CLEMENT V. ZANE Poem Text First Line: Betimes, when evening lies Last Line: May greatly bless us here! Subject(s): Blessings; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime TWILIGHT MUSIC, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know you the low pervading breeze Last Line: Blending divine delight with loveliest desire. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime TWO TWILIGHTS COME TO MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The twinned twilight Subject(s): Evening;night;time; Sunset;twilight;bedtime TWO VIEWS OF IAMONIA LAKE, by ROBERT N. PERRY JR. Poem Text First Line: By day, - / a ruffled expanse of transparent coolness Last Line: Consumed by an irresistible passion. Subject(s): Day; Lakes; Night; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime TWO WORLDS, by VIRGINIA STACY Poem Text First Line: Across the vale the long day pales Last Line: Starve feebly for an hour more gay. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime TZU-TEG SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All night I could not sleep Last Line: "I kept on hearing a voice calling: / out of nowhere, nothing answered 'yes'" Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);insomnia;night; Sleeplessness;bedtime ULTIMA THULE: NIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the darkness and the hush of night Last Line: And lo! The ideal, hidden beneath, revives. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ULTIMATELY, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: When I go out Last Line: "back through the door." Subject(s): Night; Bedtime UNDER CANVAS; IN MUSKOKA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lichens of green and grey on every side Last Line: The owl's uncanny cry, the wild loon's laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime UNDER THE SHEET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a terrible night! Does the night Last Line: A shape and a sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Night; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 17. HENRY JAMES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes to-night? We ope the doors in vain Last Line: Comes (best of all) himself -- our welcome james. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Guests; Night; Visiting; Bedtime UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 32. A CAMP, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed was made, the room was fit Last Line: At god's green caravanserai. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Camper's Night Song Subject(s): Beds; Night; Bedtime VERSES FOR PICTURES: NIGHT, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am night: I bring again Last Line: My fruitful silence quickeneth. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime VIA DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days of a man are threescore years and ten Last Line: February 15, 1887. Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Bedtime VIA DOLOROSA: 2. DELIVERANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, fair death, sole comforter and sweet Last Line: Denied him: darkness hath unsealed his eyes.' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Night; Roses; Dead, The; Bedtime VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should it irk me, the night Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, with her power to silence day Last Line: To clothe a death-born son. Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Love; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime VISION AT TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamps are lit: I gaze into the dark Subject(s): Night; Dreams; Bedtime; Nightmares VISIONS: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blissful dream, in silent night Last Line: "thou'rt ours for all eternity!" Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Hope; Night; Nightmares; Paradise; Optimism; Bedtime VOICES OF THE NIGHT, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew is on the roses Last Line: And I'll perish without remorse. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime VOLUNTARY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the quiet eve Last Line: The hostel door. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Night; Rest; Woods; Bedtime WAIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know, o faltering heart Last Line: Press bravely on -- and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Night; Waiting; Bedtime WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime WAITING FOR THE STARS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much I long for the night to come Last Line: The thirst for the dark heavens. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Legacies; Night; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime WAKING AT NIGHT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't die in my sleep Subject(s): Night; Loss; Bedtime WAKULLA: CHASING THE GATOR'S EYE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you catch a gleam between pad stalks Last Line: The reptile that moves beneath you. Subject(s): Alligators; Boats; Night; Reptiles; Bedtime WANT TO BE WHUT MOTHER IS!, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Want to be whut mother is! Want to be whur mother is! Last Line: Want to be whur mother is? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Prayer; Bedtime WAR SUITE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elephant to couple in peace Last Line: Dark and clear within her continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime WARNING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning Last Line: "remember night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: The burden of dumah. Silence. What of the / night? Last Line: With longing for that messianic morn. Subject(s): Jews; Night; Peace; Sleep; Judaism; Bedtime WE LAY US DOWN TO SLEEP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Bedtime; Life; Death; God WESTERN NIGHT, by MARIE ELY Poem Text First Line: Moon magic / touching all with madness Last Line: Reclaims its starlit sovereignty. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime WHAT JEWEL IS LEFT?, by SARAH M. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: What shall my empty eyes behold Last Line: When the very spark is dead? Subject(s): Dreams; Jewelry & Jewelers; Night; Nightmares; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Bedtime WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing Last Line: When they take away our tears. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: What of the night / and the eventual silences? Last Line: The incoherent unity of things. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime WHEN GRAZIELLA SINGS, by CHARLOTTE ROBERTA MISH Poem Text First Line: There is a tender little song you sing Last Line: The gentle dreamer lives, I think, again. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Spring; Nightmares; Bedtime WHEN I DO MOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I do mock the blackness of the night Last Line: That I might drowse away such rhymes as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Moon; Night; Rhyme; Bedtime WHEN I GET INTO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm never frightened in the dark Last Line: As I get into bed. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime WHEN YOU'RE AWAY, by MARY LANIGAN HEALY Poem Text First Line: Each night / I take your name Last Line: In the dark. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smokes - and that's enough,' Last Line: While cigarettes to ashes turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Smoking; Nightmares; Bedtime; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow Last Line: And the dawn comes slow. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues WHITE CLOVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the moon was out about three-quarters Last Line: Over all their property. Subject(s): Clover; Light; Night; Bedtime WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WHOOPING CRANE, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what a night it was for dreams Last Line: Never a feather stirred. Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Night; Bedtime WILD DUCKS, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night Last Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night. Subject(s): Ducks; Night; Spring; Trees; Mallards; Drakes; Bedtime WINDOW, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night from a railroad car window Last Line: Broken across with slashes of light. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes Last Line: Winstanley lieth low. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs WINTER HEAVENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive Last Line: And this is the soul's haven to have felt. Subject(s): Heaven; Night; Winter; Paradise; Bedtime WINTER NIGHT, by NELLE ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: The last white star is hung against the sky Last Line: Sleeps still and warm. Subject(s): Night; Winter; Bedtime WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WISCONSIN WINTER NIGHT, by HARRIETT A. LIGHTFOOT Poem Text First Line: The moon, cold empress of the night Last Line: With zero breath the day awakes. Subject(s): Night; Winter; Bedtime WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the purple drifts Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean WITCHES' NIGHT AND YE SMALL COLORED LAD, by JOSIE H. GRINDLE Poem Text First Line: Old moon peepin' outen de skies Last Line: F I evah gets home I'll 'have mahse'f! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime WORK TIME AND SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Daytime is the time for light Last Line: For god then puts the sun's light out. Subject(s): Night; October; Sleep; Bedtime WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swells Last Line: My heart just lies down, / a stone Subject(s): Night; Nature; Bedtime WRITING IN THE DARK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not difficult. / anyway, it's necessary Subject(s): Night; Bedtime YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime YOUTH AND NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shining stars Last Line: Of this strange shadowed world. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Night; Peace; Youth; Bedtime YUGAO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight is clearer and colder Last Line: Watched over by yur love for me Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine. Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 3. PALACE OF THE GNOMES, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now the hour of mirth, the hour of love Last Line: And queen of every flower that loves perpetual dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime |
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