Poems

Chapter 82: GOD’S IS THE NIGHT

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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

GOD’S IS THE NIGHT

Good night,—Love rules the world,—Sleep you!—

There is no evil in Love’s sight.

See how heaven’s lamps swing in the blue,—

Good night!

Oh what avails the futile flight

Of thought to bless the long dark through?

Deep is the darkness, and, despite

Of Love, our care is frail to do

For those we love: but all is right,

God’s is the darkness; friend, to you—

Good night!