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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER THE NIGHT, by NOUREDDIN ADDIS First Line: Beneath her haloed crest of steel and stone Last Line: And there shall be no fear and no regret. | |||
Beneath her haloed crest of steel and stone, Whose gleaming turrets hurl the night aside, The city never sleeps. Till dawn her wide Unbending ways give back a monotone -- The weary plod of men who walk alone. She asks no questions, sparing thus their pride; What have they else whose lives are crucified? What else? -- At night the city is their own. A day shall dawn -- that newer day -- not made By spinning globe on gravitation's chain. A sun shall rise which is not doomed to set Behind the city's towers; nor brightness fade ... And bondmen, freed, shall walk in their domain, And there shall be no fear and no regret. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEPULCHRE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A LITTLE WHILE by SARA TEASDALE SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 2. IN CHURCH by THOMAS HARDY BIRTH by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN |
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