One still dark night I sat alone and wrote: So still it was that distant Chanticleer Seemed to cry out his warning at my ear, Save for the brooding echo in his throat. Sullen I sat, when like the nightwind's note A voice said, "Wherefore doth he weep and fear? Doth he not know no cry to God is dumb?" Another spoke: "His heart is dimmed and drowned With grief." I knew the shape that bended then To kiss me, when suddenly I once again Across the watches of the starless gloom Heard the cock scream and pause: the morning bell Into the gulfs of night dropped One! The vision fell And left me listening to the sinking sound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISSING THE BO IN THE HENHOUSE by HAYDEN CARRUTH ABOVE AND WITHIN by DAVID IGNATOW PROMISE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES by AMY LOWELL MY SENSES DO NOT DECEIVE ME by MARIANNE MOORE |