France Preseren Night Poems

  • 1.
    (an excerpt from the epic The Baptism at The Savica)

    The warring clouds have vanished from the skies;
    The war of men has ended with the night.
    ...
  • 2.
    O happier half of days decreed to me,
    My early years, so soon you passed away:
    Few were the flowers that blossomed on that tree,
    And they, scarce budded, fell into decay.
    ...
  • 3.
    Send but your rays their glory to renew
    And let me not look for dawn's light in vain
    In your dear face, to hold back night's domain
    And calm the wildest storms that ever blew.
    ...
  • 4.
    A Slovene wreath your poet has entwined,
    Of fifteen sonnets is the chaplet bound,
    And in it thrice the Master Theme must sound:
    Thus are the other harmonies combined.
    ...
  • 5.
    As over them malignant storm clouds flew,
    Your poet's days were but disgust, despair;
    By all the furies harried, he nowhere
    Could find release nor any rest he knew.
    ...
  • 6.
    Mid wastes of Africa a wanderer sped:
    He found no pathway; night was now afield.
    Through clouds no stealthy glimmer was revealed;
    Craving the moon, he made the grass his bed.
    ...
Total 6 Night Poems by France Preseren

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