Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT-BORN, by MARY LANIER MAGRUDER First Line: You loved the wind at twilight, and the snow Last Line: Beyond the door to which we have no key. Subject(s): Shadows | ||||||||
You loved the wind at twilight, and the snow Clouding the uplands with its whirling white; And you loved shadows in the east that go To mystery in the new moon's waning light; Tide ebbing from a rocky headland; still Deep water flowing to a long lagoon; Echoes at midnight from some distant hill; Showers at dusk or rainy nights in June. What matter day's clear flashing wings, or sun Upon a hundred hills? The ecstasies Of bird-notes ere the morning had begun, Spilling their careless silver sequences? The bright, insistent brilliance of the day Too white and hard against your eyelids burned; Wearied of light and sound you slipped away, Night-born, your spirit to the night returned. And now no sudden gust may bring the fleet Wild rain at midnight but the echoes wake, And bring a prescience of your passing feet In ways remembered for the old years' sake. And never April starlight but has shaped Some memory of your smile that used to be Before your spirit to the night escaped Beyond the door to which we have no key. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT by WILLIAM MATTHEWS NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY by CONRAD AIKEN SONATA IN PATHOS by CONRAD AIKEN I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 41 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM [ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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