Gamaliel Bradford Night Poems

• 1. I Might-and I Might Not
  I might forget ambition and the hunger for success.
  I might forget the passion to escape from nothingness.
  I might forget the curious dreams of ecstasy that haunt
  My fancy day and night. I might forget them. But I can't.
  ...
• 2. The Riot
  You may think my life is quiet.
  I find it full of change,
  An ever-varied diet,
  As piquant as 'tis strange.
  ...
• 3. Fear
  When I was little,
  My life was half fear.
  My nerves were as brittle
  As nature may bear.
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• 4. The Congregation
  The ghost of night's long hours depart
  In congregation dreary,
  And leave my sorrow-trampled heart
  Intolerably weary.
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• 5. Exit God
  Of old our father's God was real,
  Something they almost saw,
  Which kept them to a stern ideal
  And scourged them into awe.
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• 6. God
  Day and night I wander widely through the wilderness of thought, Catching dainty things of fancy most reluctant to be caught. Shining tangles leading nowhere I persistently unravel, Tread strange paths of meditation very intricate to travel.
  
  Gleaming bits of quaint desire tempt my steps beyond the decent.
  I confound old solid glory with publicity too recent.
  ...

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