Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem: Night [Sonnet]

Ultima Thule, poem(s) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SONNETS - Night
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________________________________________________ SONNET: Night Into the darkness and the hush of night Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away, And with it fade the phantoms of the day, The ghosts of men and things, that haunt the light, The crowd, the clamor, the pursuit, the flight, The unprofitable splendor and display, The agitations, and the cares that prey Upon our hearts, all vanish out of sight. The better life begins; the world no more Molests us; all its records we erase From the dull common-place book of our lives, That like a palimpsest is written o'er With trivial incidents of time and place, And lo! the ideal, hidden beneath, revives. Content of SONNET: Night [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem collection: Ultima Thule] Read next: L'ENVOI: The Poet and his Songs Read previous: SONNETS: The Burial of the Poet Table of content of Ultima Thule GO TO TOP OF SCREEN Post your review Your review will be placed after the table of content of this book

Ultima Thule, poem(s) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow