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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Poems in English 

• The First Sam Hazo at the Last by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• Carol of a Father by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Psyche by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Tombless Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Cologne by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• About The Nightingale by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Fears In Solitude by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Christabel by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epigram by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Phantom by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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