Night, with all thine eyes look down! Darkness, shed its holiest dew! When ever smiled the inconstant moon On a pair so true? Hence, coy hour! and quench thy light, Lest eyes see their own delight! Hence, swift hour! and thy loved flight Oft renew. BOYS O joy! O fear! what may be done In the absence of the sun? Come along! The golden gates of sleep unbar! When strength and beauty meet together, Kindles their image like a star In a sea of glassy weather. Hence, coy hour! and quench thy light, Lest eyes see their own delight! Hence, swift hour! and thy loved flight Oft renew. GIRLS O joy! O fear! what may be done In the absence of the sun? Come along! Fairies! sprites! and angels keep her! Holiest powers, permit no wrong! And return, to wake the sleeper, Dawn, ere it be long. Hence, swift hour! and quench thy light, Lest eyes see their own delight! Hence, coy hour! and thy loved flight Oft renew. BOYS AND GIRLS O joy! O fear! what will be done In the absence of the sun? Come along! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE FROGS: THE FROGS' SONG by ARISTOPHANES CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING by LILLIE E. BARR EPITAPH ON A CAT by JOACHIM DU BELLAY SHEMA-YISRAEL-ADONAI-ELOHENU ADONAI-ECHOD by NATHAN BERNSTEIN |