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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESERT NIGHT, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS
First Line: The mountains have put on
Last Line: Responsories.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Bedtime
First Line: The mountains have put on
Last Line: Responsories.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Bedtime
The mountains have put on
Their robes of midnight blue,
And settled down to sleep
Beneath the sky;
The moon, in gold beret,
Is coyly peeping through
The shirred and ruffled clouds
As they drift by.
The cowled and cassocked palms,
Like cloistered monks in line,
Recite nocturnal Mass
With rustling breeze;
And droning insect choirs,
Before a hidden shrine,
Religiously intone
Responsories.
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