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Poem by Herbert Read


Nocturne


I WILL MAKE this girl a bed of ferns
Beneath the trees,
And she shall come to me naked and shy in the starlight,
And when I kneel to kiss her body
Faunish I will be aware of its human scent
Mingled with the resin odours of the shrouded wood
As salt in tears.

We will be silent in the world;
And if she think good
We will go down to the green pool
To lie with our bellies on the cool grass
And drink together.

The flying beetles and the bats
And the birds drowsy in the branches
Shall be our companions.
The sheep in the open fields
Shall see our white bodies
     glimmering in the woodland dusk.



Herbert Read


Herbert Read's other poems:
  1. The Pond
  2. Curfew
  3. The Happy Soldier


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Emily Johnson Nocturne ("Night of Mid-June, in heavy vapours dying")
  • Arthur Guiterman Nocturne ("The three-toed tree-toad")
  • Countee Cullen Nocturne ("Tell me all things false are true")
  • Madison Cawein Nocturne ("A disc of violet blue")
  • Gerald Griffin Nocturne ("Sleep that like the couched dove")
  • Abram Ryan Nocturne ("I sit to-night by the firelight")
  • Eugene O'Neill Nocturne ("The sunset gun booms out in hollow roar") 1910
  • Louise Guiney Nocturne ("THE sun that hurt his lovers from on high")
  • Louise Glück Nocturne ("Mother died last night")
  • Clarence Dennis Nocturne ("I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane")

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