Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIGHT [AND LOVE], by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poet's Biography First Line: The night has a thousand eyes / and the day but one Last Line: When its love is done. Variant Title(s): Night;the Night Has A Thousand Eyes Subject(s): Death; Love; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence | ||||||||
THE night has a thousand eyes, The day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When its love is done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL A VIOLINIST by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON |
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