Poems & poèmes/Ah! Night!

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Poems & poèmes  (1920)  Natalie Clifford Barney Ah! Night!

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AH! NIGHT!

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 poet's youthfulness,. . . Alone, might all this emptiness be you!         May first 1915

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