tag:https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/node/%25/atom 2026-04-18T21:51:36+01:00 admin niwa@bt48.com 1330 Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 19:17 Unpublished Poems Greacen Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Greacen030 Manuscript Night now English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen030 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen030_0.jpg LHL Archive Night Now Night now; all London’ s varnished over with the dark; Dark now, dark as the buried and unseeing root, And as the cowering earth-worm dark ... The green leaves shudder in the everning, chilled Hostages in a giant city, skeletal and bare Of love. 0 exiled one in this leprous time Walking the damply grey and heedless streets With not an echo in the wide and thoughtless world Now render up your strange, innocent, cleansing light! Nor else can cure nor wake the shuttered eye; So prisoned in the bewitched dark See now all summer glide away in a deep trance; Goodbye the loveliness, goodbye the ache For other summers lost long centuries ago. Then let us choose another time to dance. Text Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 19:17