Night & the Stars

The poetry of the night — the moon and stars, sleep and dream, and the particular hush of the world after sundown.

Reading after dark

In this collection

• Joseph Dixon
• Broadmindedness
• From the Veronica Sibthorpe Papers
• The Picture Book
• To a Man
• Miss Honor's Wedding
• Quel Che 'N Tessaglia Ebbe Le Man Si Pronte
• Second April: PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE
• Never had no Sleep
• Awake!
• The Hypnotist
• King Volmer and Elsie
• Gather Ye Roses While Ye May
• Time, that Renews the Tissues of this Frame
• On Chenoweth's Run
• Beatrice
• His Stalk the Dark
• Augustus J. Wampler
• He Heard the Coughing
• Is the yellow of the forest
• Balow, my Bonnie
• Heigho, my Dearie
• So, so, Rock-A-By so!
• The Rock-A-By Lady
• When I was a Boy
• The Rigs o' Barley
• The Lament
• The Night was Still, and o'Er the Hill
• My Hoggie
• How Long and Dreary is the Night
• Talk of him that's Far Awa
• Hymn to the Night
• The Light of Stars
• Endymion
• Carillon
• The Occultation of Orion
• The Bridge
• The Evening Star
• Curfew
• Twilight
• Birds of Passage
• Daylight and Moonlight
• 'T Is Late at Night, and in the Realm of Sleep
• The Galaxy
• Sleep
• Night
• Moonlight
• Chimes
• Four by the Clock
• The Child Asleep
• Dream-Land
• My Dream
• Twilight Calm
• Bird Raptures
• A Hope Carol
• The Cold Earth Slept Below
• The Indian Serenade
• The Two Spirits: an Allegory
• The Waning Moon
• To the Moon
• Good-Night
• Fragment: the Deserts of Dim Sleep
• To Night
• Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
• Fragment: to the Moon
• St. Irvyne's Tower
• To a Star
• Bad Dreams
• Buona Notte

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