AT night what things will stalk abroad, What veilèd shapes, and eyes of dread! With phantoms in a lonely road And visions of the dead. The kindly room when day is here, At night takes ghostly terrors on; And every shadow hath its fear, And every wind its moan. Lord Jesus, Day-Star of the world, Rise Thou, and bid this dark depart, And all the east, a rose uncurled, Grow golden at the heart! Lord, in the watches of the night, Keep Thou my soul! a trembling thing As any moth that in daylight Will spread a rainbow wing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON HEARING OF INTENTION .. TO PURCHASE THE POET'S FREEDOM by GEORGE MOSES HORTON TO THE MISS WEBSTERS, WITH DR. AIKIN'S WISH by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE DAWN OF EVENING by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE WRITTEN FOR AN ALBUM by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD A SHEPHERD'S DREAM by NICHOLAS BRETON QUEEN BERTHA by PHILIPPE-SIRICE BRIDEL |