CAME the Relief. "What, Sentry, ho! How passed the night through thy long waking?" "Cold, cheerless, dark, -- as may befit The hour before the dawn is breaking." "No sight? no sound?" "No; nothing save The plover from the marshes calling, And in yon Western sky, about An hour ago, a Star was falling." "A star? There's nothing strange in that." "No, nothing; but, above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PORPHYRIA'S LOVER by ROBERT BROWNING THE TWO MYSTERIES by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE by JAMES GALVIN AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 1. MRS. VERNON CASTLE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PSALM 123 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |