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Poem by Wole Soyinka
Night
Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow.
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare.
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.
Woman as a clam, on the sea's cresent.
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Flouorescence, dance on the pulse incessant
Of the waves. And I stood, drained
Submitting like the sands, blood and brine
Coursing to the roots. Night, you rained
Serrated shadows through dank leaves
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dappled cells
Sensations pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves.
Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth
I must hear none! These misted cells will yet
Undo me; naked, unbidden, at Night's muted birth.
Wole Soyinka
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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") 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") Thomas Gent Night ("Now when dun Night her shadowy veil has spread")
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