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Vigil
Traian06
In the darkest
coldest night

when the moon
and stars
are eerie clear

suspended
in stillness
echoing off
the walls of solitude

the...
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Vigil
Katharine Tynan
At night, when all the house is still,
Wide-waked the chairs and tables come
And yawn and stretch their limbs until
The maids appear with pan and...
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Vigil
William Ernest Henley
Lived on one's back,
In the long hours of repose,
Life is a practical nightmare -
Hideous asleep or...
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Vigil
Monica Mackness
Leaning against a wall
Calling unto a voice that often finds me in the Midst of chaos.
Welcomes each time though how unworthy I may be found.
Takes...
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The Vigil
MJM Wagner
No wind stirred the skeletal branches that night, or the ground fog that lay in the hollow,
And wither the leprous full moon spilled her light, did...
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Be Vigil
VaPenny
Today is here, tomorrow is never promised,
Yesterday is gone , but never forgotten. Things happen for a reason no matter the season.
All good...
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His Vigil
James Whitcomb Riley
Close the book and dim the light,
I shall read no more to-night.
No--I am not sleepy, dear--
Do not go: sit by me here
In the darkness and the deep...
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Holding Vigil
Marty Sullivan
Hold vigil
Every moment
See the newness
As life emerges
Just...
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Nightly Vigil
Anthony J. Mizzi
Cocooned in soft down and fleece he slumbers,
Bare foot exposed, clutching his stuffed monkey
Beneath a sleep-dead arm. Heaven’s rages
Against...
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The Night Vigil
Jerry Lovelady
Swaddled in swank serenity
the sleepy twilight world
gives birth to another
quintessential day
damp and dripping
with morning's birth waters.
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The Vigil
Roderic Quinn
THE rain is falling on the roof,
And no sound else disturbs the wife,
Except the trees and winds at strife,
Now near at hand and now aloof;
But...
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The Vigil
Sir Henry Newbolt
England! where the sacred flame
Burns before the inmost shrine,
Where the lips that love thy name
Consecrate their hopes and thine,
Where the banners...
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The Vigil Of Venus
Thomas Parnell
Let those love now, who never lov'd before,
Let those who always lov'd, now love the...
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The Vigil-at-Arms
Louise Imogen Guiney
Keep holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting
Till morning break, and all the bugles play;
Unto the One aware from everlasting
Dear are the...
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
Walt Whitman
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
  When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  One look I but gave which your dear eyes...
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Be vigil
Penny Gibson
Today is here, tomorrow is never promised,
Yesterday is gone , but never forgotten. Things happen for a reason no matter the season.
All good...
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