DAY is past! Stars have set their watch at last; Founts that through the deep woods flow Make sweet sounds, unheard till now; Flowers have shut with fading light -- Good night! Go to rest! Sleep sit dove-like on thy breast! If within that secret cell One dark form of memory dwell, Be it mantled from thy sight -- Good night! Joy be thine! Kind looks o'er thy slumbers shine! Go, and in the spirit-land Meet thy home's long-parted band; Be their eyes all love and light -- Good night! Peace to all! Dreams of heaven on mourners fall! Exile! o'er thy couch may gleams Pass from thine own mountain-streams; Bard! away to worlds more bright -- Good night! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIFE [AND DEATH] by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ANIMAL CRACKERS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 82. HOARDED JOY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE METEMPSYCHOSIS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 2. JAMES MACNEIL WHISTLER by KARL W. BIGELOW DENNER'S OLD WOMAN by VINCENT BOURNE THE INTERCEPTED SALUTE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |