Nature
A Night Thought
From Juvenile Poems
Nature
How oft a cloud, with envious veil,
Obscures yon bashful light,
Which seems so modestly to steal
Along the waste of night!
'Tis thus the world's obtrusive wrongs
Obscure with malice keen
Some timid heart, which only longs
To live and die unseen.
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MLA
Moore, Thomas. “A Night Thought.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/114/.
Chicago
Moore, Thomas. “A Night Thought.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/114/.
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