The Woods At Night
by May Swenson
The binocular owl,
fastened to a limb
like a lantern
all night long,
sees where all
the other birds sleep:
towhee under leaves,
titmouse deep
in a twighouse,
sapsucker gripped
to a knothole lip,
redwing in the reeds,
swallow in the willow,
flicker in the oak –
but cannot see poor
whippoorwill
under the hill
in deadbrush nest,
who’s awake, too –
with stricken eye
flayed by the moon
her brindled breast
repeats, repeats, repeats its plea
for cruelty.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Living Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- Владимир Британишский – Горы, горы – горизонты
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
- Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Memoriam
- Василий Жуковский – К Филону
- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant
- Hidebound by Shaunna Harper
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory by Phillis Wheatley
- A Soldier by Robert Frost
- On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Карамзин – К самому себе
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