Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IMPEACHMENT OF NIGHT, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI 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 | ||||||||
What time bright Phoebus doth not stretch and bend his shining arms around this terrene sphere, the people call that season dark and drear night, for the cause they do not comprehend. So weak is Night that if our hand extend a glimmering torch, her shadows disappear, leaving her dead; like frailest gossamere, tinder and steel her mantle rive and rend. Nay, if this Night be anything at all, sure she is daughter of the sun and earth; this holds, the other spreads that shadowy pall. Howbeit they err who praise this gloomy birth, so frail and desolate and void of mirth that one poor firefly can her might appal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN LOVE'S JUSTIFICATION by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI |
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