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Poem by Epes Sargent
Night
But, oh! the night—the cool, luxurious night,
Which closes round us when the day grows dim,
And the sun sinks from his meridian height,
Behind the ocean's occidental rim!
Clouds, in thin streaks of purple, green and red,
Gather around his setting, and absorb
The last rich rays of glory, that are shed,
In wide profusion, from his failing orb.
And now the moon, her lids unclosing, deigns
To smile serenely on the charmed sea,
That shines as if inlaid with lightning chains,
From which it hardly struggled to be free.
Swan-like, with motion unperceived, we glide,
Touched by the downy breeze, and favored by the tide.
Epes Sargent
Poem Theme: Night
Epes Sargent's other poems:- The Planet Jupiter
- The Heart’s Summer
- The Sea-Breeze at Matanzas
- Rockall
- To David Friedrich Strauss
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Anne Brontë Night ("I love the silent hour of night") William Morris Night ("I am Night: I bring again") George Russell Night ("HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose") Thomas Aird Night ("From sleepless work, and a ne'er-setting sun") Henry Longfellow Night ("Into the darkness and the hush of night") Charles Heavysege Night ("'Tis solemn darkness; the sublime of shade") James Thomson Night ("HE cried out through the night") Lucy Montgomery Night ("A pale enchanted moon is sinking low") Sidney Lanier Night ("Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day") William Browne Night ("Now great Hyperion left his golden throne") Ella Wilcox Night ("As some dusk mother shields from all alarms") Jones Very Night ("I thank thee, Father, that the night is near") Ann Radcliffe Night ("Now Ev'ning fades! her pensive step retires") Charles Williams Night ("Through His first darkness here He sleeps at ease") Walter De la Mare Night ("All from the light of the sweet moon")
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