NOCTURNE
by: Amelia Josephine Burr
(1878-?)
 LL the
earth a hush of white,
- White with moonlight all the skies;
- Wonder of a winter night--
- And . . . your eyes.
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- Hues no palette dares to claim
- Where the spoils of sunken ships
- Leap to light in singing flame--
- And . . . your lips.
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- Darkness as the shadows creep
- Where the embers sigh to rest;
- Silence of a world asleep--
- And . . . your breast.
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"Nocturne" is reprinted
from Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916. Ed. William
Stanley Braithwaite. New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1916. |
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