Night

Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon Let the light of late afternoon

Hard Night by Christian Wiman What words or harder gift

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay It is portentous, and a thing of state

Night Funeral in Harlem by Langston Hughes Night funeral

At Deep Midnight by Minnie Bruce Pratt It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly,

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning The gray sea and the long black land

Hellish Night by Arthur Rimbaud I've swallowed a terrific mouthful of poison

Sawdust by Sharon Bryan Why not lindendust

Night Songs by Thomas Kinsella Now, as I sink in sleep

At Night the States by Alice Notley At night the states

Breaking Across Us Now by Katie Ford I began to see things in parts again

Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the trailing garments of the Night

Unity by Pablo Neruda There is something dense, united, settled in the depths

Flying at Night by Ted Kooser Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations

A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,

Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy It's over, love. Look at me pushing fifty now,

Night Air by C. Dale Young "If God is Art, then what do we make

Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson Eternities before the first-born day

On a Night Like This by Michael Teig When he couldn't sleep and his sight got going

To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley Swiftly walk o'er the western wave

Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg Bend low again, night of summer stars

The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth The sun has long been set

Night Drafts by Tony Sanders Polite, intent, no fooling this time, because blasphemy

Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T.S. Eliot Twelve o'clock

Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing

Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale In the wild soft summer darkness

The First Night by Billy Collins Before I opened you, Jiménez

Last by Maxine Scates At dusk the streetlights

Here and Now by Stephen Dunn There are words

Window by Carl Sandburg Night from a railroad car window

Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night

Nights On The Peninsula by D. Nurkse We could not separate ourselves from our endless making

One Night by Mathias Svalina I am scared of one night

Night by Carsten René Nielsen At night things become ever so smaller, our shoes and teeth, too, and

Night Blooming Jasmine by Giovanni Pascoli And in the hour when blooms unfurl

La Noche by Anselm Hollo the wind let loose in the dark