Nature
Check
From Georgian Poetry 1916–1917 (1917)
Nature
The night was creeping on the ground;
She crept and did not make a sound
Until she reached the tree, and then
She covered it, and stole again
Along the grass beside the wall.
I heard the rustle of her shawl
As she threw blackness everywhere
Upon the sky and ground and air,
And in the room where I was hid:
But no matter what she did
To everything that was without,
She could not put my candle out.
So I stared at the night, and she
Stared back solemnly at me.
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Stephens, James. “Check.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stephens/20/.
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Stephens, James. “Check.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stephens/20/.
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