Thomas Cole's poetry the collected poems of America's foremost painter of the Hudson River School reflecting his feelings for nature and the romantic spirit of the Nineteenth Century |
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[104. Who breaks the silence of the night]
Who breaks the silence of the night
With deep and desperate cry?
Who curses while the golden light
Is on the mountains high?—
With deep and desperate cry?
Who curses while the golden light
Is on the mountains high?—
In a stone dungeon deep and dark
A miserable wretch doth lie
Who calls for vengeance, raves for love
But praying cannot die—
A miserable wretch doth lie
Who calls for vengeance, raves for love
But praying cannot die—
Three days within that rock bound cell
Three summer days they short may seem
To those who on the mountains dwell
And watch the cloud's sunny beam—
Three summer days they short may seem
To those who on the mountains dwell
And watch the cloud's sunny beam—
But unto him whose fetters gall
Bound to the cold unpitying stone
Where light nor dew drop ever fall
Where earth's dank sweat at each loud groan
Is shaken from the shiney wall
Three days are centuries—
Bound to the cold unpitying stone
Where light nor dew drop ever fall
Where earth's dank sweat at each loud groan
Is shaken from the shiney wall
Three days are centuries—
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