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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONE NIGHT, WHEN I WAS SLEEPING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: One night, when I was sleeping all alone Last Line: That war must cease and friendship come to men? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): War | |||
One night, when I was sleeping all alone, Close to a forest, far from any town, Up with a cry I started -- what was that Which shook me here, as though I were a rat! I met a black man in the morning light, Who said -- and fear had made him ashen white -- 'Where were you when this earth of ours Shook terribly in the early hours?' And shall the Himalayas and the Alps Wriggle like worms, when the Earth gulps Half the Pacific in one breath! Think if the death Of countless people -- When the bells in each surviving steeple Toll for the dead in every shaken land, Without a touch from any mortal hand; Until this Earth lies down again to rest, And sleeps without a conscience in her breast. Is not the fear of this sufficient then That War must cease and Friendship come to men? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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