Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


ELUDED by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

First Line: DEEP IN THE NIGHT I HEARD
Last Line: (NO LOST LOVE STEPPED WITHIN MY ROOM -- ONLY THE PALLID DAWN!)
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF; RAIN;

DEEP in the night I heard
The rain's mysterious word.
(It was as if an old love spoke, a dead love sobbed and stirred.)

Deep in the night the great voice of the rain
Called at my window-pane.
(A voice more sad shall nevermore sing at my heart again.)

O deep within the night, the last stars gone,
I heard the rain pass on.
(No lost love stepped within my room -- only the pallid dawn!)



Home: PoetryExplorer.net