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Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Night
Into the darkness and the hush of night
Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away,
And with it fade the phantoms of the day,
The ghosts of men and things, that haunt the light,
The crowd, the clamor, the pursuit, the flight,
The unprofitable splendor and display,
The agitations, and the cares that prey
Upon our hearts, all vanish out of sight.
The better life begins; the world no more
Molests us; all its records we erase
From the dull commonplace book of our lives,
That like a palimpsest is written o'er
With trivial incidents of time and place,
And lo! the ideal, hidden beneath, revives.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem Theme: Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's other poems:- Autumnal Nightfall
- Birds of Passage
- A Ballad of the French Fleet
- Bishop Sigurd at Salten-Fiord
- In the Churchyard at Cambridge
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") 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") Epes Sargent Night ("But, oh! the night—the cool, luxurious night") 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") Arthur Symons Night ("The night's held breath")
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