Night Poems
Boots
by Rudyard Kipling
INFANTRY COLUMNS
We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa --
Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa --
(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
Seven--six--eleven--five--nine-an'-tw enty mile to-day --
Four--eleven--seventeen--thirty-two the day before --
(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!)
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A First Confession
by William Butler Yeats
I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair
Did not injure me;
My blenching and trembling,
Nothing but dissembling,
Nothing but coquetry.
I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
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Lights Out
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Redbird at midnight
Where did the orange sun go
on Emerald Lane?
Stars twinkle summer
butterfly wings so weary
Lights out cool fireflies.
Resting on jade grass
do the crickets miss their song
in mellow moonlight?
Flowers waltz in pearls
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It's Called Loveliness
by James B. Long
I know that I have always seen
Loveliness that's called a bee.
Who works every single day
Who brings home Honey Night
And sweet what a fantastic feat!
I know that I shall always hear
Bird song, loud,lovely clear.
They sing at dawn, at high noon
Very happy joyful tunes.
I know that I shall always see,
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To Elsie
by William Carlos Williams
The pure products of America
go crazy--
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
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A Conversation with the Moon
by Atarah Cromwell
Does her smile warm your dreams like it warms mine
A flicker in the night
At peace with pale moon light
The wishing stars whisper my name
They whisper only lies
I fear the tide
When the sun has ceased its shine
I must not fight, moonlight
Does his frown taunt your dreams like it taunts mine
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Wanneer dit donker word
by Mario Odekerken
Die son sak in 'n helder ram,
die stilte omarm die nag,
sterre flikker soos speels-drome,
'n sagte bries fluister geheime,
die aarde rust in haar ewige omheining,
en die maan kyk sag na alles wat leeft.
Night in black satin
by Mario Odekerken
Night in black satin
slides over the sky,
smooth,
without sound.
Stars barely whisper,
hiding behind
a veil too soft to hold.
Even the moon
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quechua, llaqtaq runakunapaq
by atef ayadi
ñuqa hamuyku punchawkunapi,
ch’isi, k’uychi, ch’uñu,
mana tukuychu kanki.
Mulberry
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
in navy blue dusk
mulberry brushes green grass ~
a scene that's starlit
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William Butler Yeats (73 poems about Night)
W.B. Yeats] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland -
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (54 poems about Night)
5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin -
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Eugene Field (48 poems about Night)
2 September 1850 - 4 November 1895 / St Louis / Missouri / United States -
