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 

• Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Calais, August 15, 1802 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• By The Seaside by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• “By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• British Freedom by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• “Brave Schill! By Death Delivered” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Seventh [Residence in London] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Second [School-Time Continued] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Fourth [Summer Vacation] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth

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