Night Verse Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Verses this night
Come dim
As dim as night
As black as dark
As strait as alleys
As humid as the street-cobbles
As quiet as the sleeping houses
As trembling as the night-lamps
As hot as lovers’ kisses
As sweet as the embraces
As lovely-eyed as the moon
As wise as the benighted owls
As honeyed as the nightingales
As happy as nocturnal boughs
As slippery as the rain besotted kerb
As fast as lightning
As dreamy as the clouds
As tired as the sleepers
As trembling as wall shadows
Come dim
This night
The verses