Louis Untermeyer Night Poems

  • 1.
    What sudden bugle calls us in the night
    And wakes us from a dream that we had shaped;
    Flinging us sharply up against a fight
    We thought we had escaped.
    ...
  • 2.
    Only of thee and me the night wind sings,
    Only of us the sailors speak at sea,
    The earth is filled with wondered whisperings
    Only of thee and me.
    ...
  • 3.
    I never knew the earth had so much gold-
    The fields run over with it, and this hill,
    Hoary and old,
    Is young with buoyant blooms that flame and thrill.
    ...
Total 3 Night Poems by Louis Untermeyer

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Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.

Give me to live and love in the old, bold fashion;
A soldier's billet at night and a soldier's ration;
A heart that leaps to the fight with a soldier's passion.

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