Time & Brevity
When night is almost done
Time & Brevity
When night is almost done,
And sunrise grows so near
That we can touch the spaces,
It 's time to smooth the hair
And get the dimples ready,
And wonder we could care
For that old faded midnight
That frightened but an hour.
Cite this poem
MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “When night is almost done.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/16/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “When night is almost done.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/16/.
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