The School of Night

What did I study in your School of Night?

When your mouth’s first unfathomable yes

Opened your body to be my book, I read

My answers there and learned the spell aright,

Yet, though I searched and searched, could never guess

What spirits it raised nor where their questions led.

Those others, familiar tenants of your sleep,

The whisperers, the grave somnambulists

Whose eyes turn in to scrutinize their woe,

The giant who broods above the nightmare steep,

That sleeping girl, shuddering, with clenched fists,

A vampire baby suckling at her toe,

They taught me most. The scholar held his pen

And watched his blood drip thickly on the page

To form a text in unknown characters

Which, as I scanned them, changed and changed again:

The lines grew bars, the bars a Delphic cage

And I the captive of his magic verse.

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• Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Coming Through The Rye by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Caledonia: A Ballad by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Bonnie Lesley by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Bonie Jean: A Ballad by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Boat Song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’ by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 3 by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Another on the said Occasion by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Address to the Unco Guid by Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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