Poems of the night: night poetry

Poems of the night: nocturnal poetry.

In this section of the library We will give an account of the best poems of the night, that is, those poetic pieces inspired by the darkness, the moon, the stars and all the fascinating nocturnal characters that populate our dreams and nightmares.

Through these poems of the night we propose to explore the history of nocturnal poetry, including a wide variety of genres, authors and arguments, all of them crossed by darkness.

Night poems:

Awaiting the Darkness (Awaiting the Darkness, Alejandra Pizarnik) To the Imagination (To Imagination, Emily Brontë) To the Moon (A la Luna, Gertrudis de Avellaneda) To the Darkness (To the Darkness, Clark Ashton Smith ) At night (To the night, José de Espronceda) Wings in the night (Wings in the Night, Katharine Tynan) To the stars (To the stars, Gertrudis de Avellaneda) At one in the morning (À une heure du matin , Charles Baudelaire) When lightning shines we are born (When lightning shines we are born, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) Ally of the stars (Ally of Stars, Irene Wilde) To the dream (To the dream, Francisco de Quevedo) Buried love (Buried Love, Sara Teasdale ) Love and Witches (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Love and a Question (Robert Frost) Night Trees (Frank Belknap Long) Arkham (Arkham, Robert E. Howard) Astrophobos (Astrophobos , HP Lovecraft) White in the Moon (AE Housman) Silent Wood (Silent Wood, Elizabeth Siddal) Night Mist (Alexander Blok) Every Day Hath its Night (Every Day Hath its Night, Alfred Tennyson) Song to the song of the night, Daniel Henry Deniehy When the Eye of the Day is Shut, AE Housman) When in the night (When in the night, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) When the dark shadow enters (When the dark shadow enters, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) When the moon falls on my bed ( When On My Bed the Moonlight Falls, Lord Tennyson Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon From The Crypts of Memory, Clark Ashton Smith From the Grave, Ella Wheeler Wilcox Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Alfred Tennyson The Howler The Howler HP Lovecraft The Dark Stagg Isabella Crawford The Heart of the Night Dante Gabriel Rossetti) The Twilight of the Night (Le Crépuscule du soir, Charles Baudelaire) The Raven (The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe) Eldorado (Eldorado, Edgar Allan Poe) Twilight Elegy (Twilight Elegy, María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira) Elegy on a village churchyard (Elegy on a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray)The Vain Spell (Edith Nesbit)The Werewolf (Anne S. Bushby)The Yule Horror (HP Lovecraft)The Lake The Nightmare (The Nightmare Lake, HP Lovecraft) The Book (The Book, HP Lovecraft) They Run Again (Leah Bodine Drake) The Messenger (The Messenger, HP Lovecraft) The Strigoi (Strigoiul, Vasile Alecsandri) The night wind (The Night Wind, Emily Brontë) Meeting at Night (Robert Browning) In the night (In the Night, Amy Levy) In the shadows (In the Shadows, Leah Bodine Drake) In dreams I saw the skies of midnight (In Sleep I Saw the Skies at Midnight Red, John Barlas) In your midnight bed (On Your Midnight Pallet Lying, AE Housman) Night Scenes Of Other Times (Joanna Baillie) Written with a nyctograph ( Written with a nyctograph, Arturo Carrera This is the Horror that, Night After Night, Gerald Gould Acquainted with the Night, Robert Frost Night-Blowing Flowers, Felicia Dorothea Hemans) Fragment of a Ballad (Elizabeth Siddal) There Will Be Stars (Sara Teasdale) Halloween in a Suburb (HP Lovecraft) There’s a Whisper Behind the walls (There is a Whispering Outside the Walls, Fritz Leiber) Frost at Midnight (Frost at Midnight, Samuel Taylor Coleridge) wolf (Were-Wolf, Julian Hawthorne) Insomnia (Insomnia, Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Nocturnal Inspiration (Nocturnal Inspiration, Ramón de Campoamor) The Song of Shadows (Walter de la Mare) The Song of the Bats (The Song of the Bats, Robert E. Howard Ghost House, Robert Frost The City of the Dreadful Night, James Thomson The City in the Sea, Edgar Allan Poe) The Dance of Death (Der totentanz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) The Sleeper (Edgar Allan Poe) The Night Flower (Die Nachtblume, Joseph von Eichendorff)The Ghoula (The Ghoula, Edward Lucas White) The Moon It is an absence (The moon is an absence, Carolina Coronado) The light breaks where no sun shines (Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Dylan Thomas) The night of love (The Night of Love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti) The winter night of a old man (An Old Man’s Winter Night, Robert Frost)The Night is Darkening Round Me, Emily Brontë) The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Francis William Bourdillon) The darkness devours the The Darkness Swallows Up the Feeble Light, John Barlas The Immortal Part, AE Housman The Queen of Air and Darkness, AE Housman The Ancient Track , HP Lovecraft) The Nights Remember (Sara Teasdale) The Pains of Sleep (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Children of the Night (Edwin Arlington Robinson) The Grave , Robert Blair) What the Moon Brings (HP Lovecraft) The benefits of the moon (Les Bienfaits de la lune, Charles Baudelaire)The Were-Wolves (William Wilfred Campbell)The listeners (The Listeners, Walter de la Mare) Light in the Darkness (George Heath) Mater Dolorosa (Mater Dolorosa, William Barnes) Fear (Walter de la Mare)Night-Gaunts (Night-Gaunts, HP Lovecraft)Night (Night, Ann Radcliffe) Night (Night, William Blake) Gray Nights (Grey Nights, Ernest Dowson) Nocturno (Nocturno, Delmira Agustini) Nocturno (Nocturno, Rubén Darío) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas) Oceanus (Oceanus, HP Lovecraft) Darkness (Lord Byron) To a Dreamer (HP Lovecraft) Thoughts at Midnight (Elizabeth Carter) Night-Thoughts (Edward Young) Night Thoughts (Nachtgedanken, Goethe) At Night (By Night, Alfred Tennyson) Why do I love the silence of the moon? (Why Do I Love the Silence of the Moon?, John Barlas) Presentiment (Presentiment, Emily Dickinson) Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight, August Derleth) Do you remember that night? (An Cuimhin Leat An Oíche Ud?, anonymous) Serpentina (Serpentina, Delmira Agustini) Without compassion we enter the night (We Uncommiserate Pass Into the Night, Robert Louis Stevenson) Port sirens (Harbour Whistles, HP Lovecraft) I survived the night (Somehow Myself Survived the Night, Emily Dickinson) Shadows (Shadows, AC Benson) Strigoii (Strigoii, George Bacovia) Tenebrae (Tenebrae, Emile Verhaeren) All Souls (All Souls, Katharine Tynan) A Stop in the Woods on a Snowy Night (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost) A Chilly Night, Christina Rossetti A Night-Piece on Death, Thomas Parnell A Prayer in the Dark, GK Chesterton) A Feather from Lucifer’s Wing, Foreman Faulconer A Clock Striking Midnight, Thomas Lovell Beddoes A Dream, William Blake Come to me in my dreams , Come to me in Dreams, Mary Shelley) I see thine image through my tears to-night, Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Stellar winds (Star Winds, HP Lovecraft) I’m going to sleep (I’m going to sleep , Alfonsina Storni)

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