Poems about Night

Night from a railroad car window
Is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.

"Window" by Carl Sandburg

Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water...

From "Flying at Night" by Ted Kooser

More poems about Nighttime:

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

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

At Night the States by Alice Notley At night the states / I forget them...

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

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

Hard Night by Christian Wiman What words or harder gift...

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

Here and Now by Stephen Dunn There are words / I've had to save myself from...

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

Last by Maxine Scates At dusk the streetlights...

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

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

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

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

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

Night Funeral in Harlem by Langston Hughes Night funeral / In Harlem: // Where did they get / Them two fine cars...

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

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

Sawdust by Sharon Bryan Why not lindendust...

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...

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

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

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

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

Window by Carl Sandburg Night from a railroad car window...