The innocent, sweet Day is dead.
Dark Night hath slain her in her bed.
O, Moors are as fierce to kill as to wed!
-Put out the light, said he.
A sweeter light than ever rayed
From star of heaven or eye of maid
Has vanished in the unknown Shade.
-She's dead, she's dead, said he.
Now, in a wild, sad after-mood
The tawny Night sits still to brood
Upon the dawn-time when he wooed.
-I would she lived, said he.
Star-memories of happier times,
Of loving deeds and lovers' rhymes,
Throng forth in silvery pantomimes.
-Come back, O Day! said he.
Montgomery, Alabama, 1866.
Night And Day
Sidney Lanier
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Poem topics: dark, heaven, sad, time, innocent, wild, sweet, shade, unknown, mood, dawn, fierce, light, night, star, Valentine's Day, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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