Time & Brevity
At Midnight
From Modern American Poetry (1921)
Time & Brevity
See, yonder, the belfry tower
That gleams in the moon’s pale light—
Or is it a ghostly flower
That dreams in the silent night?
I listen and hear the chime
Go quavering over the town,
And out of this flower of Time
Twelve petals are wafted down.
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MLA
Sherman, Frank Dempster. “At Midnight.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/0/.
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Sherman, Frank Dempster. “At Midnight.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/0/.
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