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Popular Night Poems

The Lighted Window

by Russell Edson

A lighted window floats through the night
like a piece of paper in the wind.

I want to see into it. I want to climb
through into its lighted room.

As I reach for it it slips through the
trees. As I chase it it rolls and tumbles
into the air and skitters on through the
night . . .

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Love And Harmony

by William Blake

Love and harmony combine,
And round our souls entwine
While thy branches mix with mine,
And our roots together join.

Joys upon our branches sit,
Chirping loud and singing sweet;
Like gentle streams beneath our feet
Innocence and virtue meet.

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Meditations Upon A Candle

by John Bunyan

Man's like a candle in a candlestick,
Made up of tallow and a little wick;
And as the candle when it is not lighted,
So is he who is in his sins benighted.
Nor can a man his soul with grace inspire,
More than can candles set themselves on fire.
Candles receive their light from what they are not;
Men grace from Him for whom at first they care not.
We manage candles when they take the fire;
God men, when he with grace doth them inspire.

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The Complaint Of Ceres

by Friedrich Schiller

Does pleasant spring return once more?
Does earth her happy youth regain?
Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er;
Soft brooklets burst their icy chain:
Upon the blue translucent river
Laughs down an all-unclouded day,
The winged west winds gently quiver,
The buds are bursting from the spray;
While birds are blithe on every tree;
The Oread from the mountain-shore

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Last Curtain

by Rabindranath Tagore

I know that the day will come
when my sight of this earth shall be lost,
and life will take its leave in silence,
drawing the last curtain over my eyes.

Yet stars will watch at night,
and morning rise as before,
and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.

When I think of this end of my moments,

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Recent Night Poems

Nachtelijke momenten

by Mario Odekerken

De nacht ademt langzaam
en vult de kamer met stilte
die nergens op wacht.

Mijn gedachten dwalen
zachter dan het donker
dat alles omarmt.

Daisy of Darkness and Beauty

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Daisy dark
moonlight denizen
of dream beds.
Red rose scents
beneath diamond crusted space
Dawn will come too soon.

Daisy grace
come what breezes may
still placid

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The Night’s Body

by Talal Uddin

Today, the night’s body has become the Babylon.
It doesn’t have that fame—
Neither the harmonic song sung by
A singer, the work of a drummer,
Mandira’s tung tung
That came through ether from the song of Jassha,
Nor
The bubble-tumble of Nagan Babu
By drinking alcohol,
Fox’s hukka hua,

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Openness

by Somali Mukherjee

With open casements,
I can welcome the warm sun
And the starry sky.

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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