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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER THE NIGHT, by NOUREDDIN ADDIS First Line: Beneath her haloed crest of steel and stone Last Line: And there shall be no fear and no regret. | |||
Beneath her haloed crest of steel and stone, Whose gleaming turrets hurl the night aside, The city never sleeps. Till dawn her wide Unbending ways give back a monotone -- The weary plod of men who walk alone. She asks no questions, sparing thus their pride; What have they else whose lives are crucified? What else? -- At night the city is their own. A day shall dawn -- that newer day -- not made By spinning globe on gravitation's chain. A sun shall rise which is not doomed to set Behind the city's towers; nor brightness fade ... And bondmen, freed, shall walk in their domain, And there shall be no fear and no regret. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SORROWING LOVE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE CONFLICT by CECIL DAY LEWIS TOMORROW by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO THE TARRY BUCCANEER by JOHN MASEFIELD YARROW REVISITED by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SONNET: ONE NEW YEAR'S EVE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON SERVICE by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE by JOHN BYROM |
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