Poem: “Ah! Night” by Natalie Clifford Barney

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Ah! Night

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Ah! night!
To feel the stab of beauty at the heart!
To drink, with lifted throat,
The silent throb and music of the stars,
The first kiss of the spring on spell-bound trees,
To stretch out arms to hold and soothe the world,
—A love too vast in aught to be contained,
Helpless and great: a poets youthfulness,…

Alone, might all this emptiness be you!

May first 1915

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American Literature – American Poetry –Natalie Clifford Barney – Poems from Natalie Clifford Barney

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