Best Light Poems

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
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There's a light on in the attic.
Thought the house is dark and shuttered,
I can see a flickerin' flutter,
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
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What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are

sterling, whose lunge is straight?
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky.
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here,
Warm southern wind,
Blow softly here.
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Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
When we turn off the light
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More than air
More than water
More than lips
Light light
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Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones;
Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,
Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva's night,
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Light, my light, the world-filling light,
the eye-kissing light,
heart-sweetening light!
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Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why
Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny
The sunshine of the Sun's enlivening eye?
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Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
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Light, oh where is the light?
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
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The changing light
                 at San Francisco
       is none of your East Coast light
                none of your
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' i am ' sky
my colors are my moods
' i am' light blue when i'm at peace
' i am ' dark blue when i'm troubled
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
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They burnt a corpse upon the sand--
The light shone out afar;
It guided home the plunging dhows
That beat from Zanzibar.
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So the light falls, and so it fell
on branched leaved with flocking birds.
Loght stole a citys weight to swell
the coloured lofe of stone. Your words
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Tajmahal
(My Cleopatra)

Citadel of love is empty,
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Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn
Circling above the hamlets as they nest;
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In the dark I stand alone
In the dark I think this is my home

I think of you in the dark
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How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in it
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The light by the barn that shines all night
pales at dawn when a little breeze comes.

A little breeze comes breathing the fields
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The days were waiting for you to come
Flowers were waiting to blossom
The breeze was waiting to caress the lovely branch
The roads were waiting for your feet to touch
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I saw myself in a wide green garden, more beautiful than I could begin to understand. In this garden was a young girl. I said to her, 'How wonderful this place is! '

'Would you like to see a place even more wonderful than this? ' she asked.
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Yes, I know, this is nothing but thy love,
O beloved of my heart---this golden light that dances upon the leaves,
these idle clouds sailing across the sky,
this passing breeze leaving its coolness upon my forehead.
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Through the house give glimmering light
By the dead and drowsy fire
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Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light -- with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant-world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its blue flood -- the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning multiform beast inhales it -- but more than all, the lordly stranger with the sense-filled eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly form around every earthly substance. -- Its presence alone reveals the marvelous splendor of the kingdoms of the world.

Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world -- sunk in a deep grave -- waste and lonely is its place. In the chords of the bosom blows a deep sadness. I am ready to sink away in drops of dew, and mingle with the ashes. -- The distances of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood, the brief joys and vain hopes of a whole long life, arise in gray garments, like an evening vapor after the sunset. In other regions the light has pitched its joyous tents. What if it should never return to its children, who wait for it with the faith of innocence?
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'What do you make so fair and bright?'

'I make the cloak of Sorrow:
O lovely to see in all men's sight
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And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
______________________
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Above the tower -- a lone, twice-sized moon.
On the cold river passing night-filled homes,
It scatters restless gold across the waves.
On mats, it shines richer than silken gauze.
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Been stumbling around in the dark, trying to follow
the light in Gods heart. Fear and confusion can get
in the way, and so many mistakes I have made. But,
Gods love has always been... As sure as the light of
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I am your beloved, lost in your love.
For long, my heart is longing for light.
Oh! You are my light; you are my sky.
My mind is flying like a dove in a joyful flight.
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
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What though the sun had left my sky;
To save me from despair
The blessed moon arose on high,
And shone serenely there.
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Dance unto the light,
Sway to the sounds of time,
Watch the angels bright,
As they dance within your mind.
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So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone,
And the way was laid so certainly, that, when I'd gone,
What dumb thing looked up at you? Was it something heard,
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The light house, the guardian angel of the night
She shines her light for all the lost sailors passing by
Her beam bright as the sun, flashing through the night sky
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Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill!
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still.
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.
No light had we: for that we do repent;
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I shall 'go gentle into that good night'
I have no wish to 'rage, rage' rave and fight
But rather I would welcome
'The dying of the light'
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the eyes of the light are so blind
blind to reality
blind to the truth
the eyes of darkness see it all
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Darkness, darkness is most dreary and glum compared
To light, for light is the joy of spring and the warmth of a
Beautiful summer, but darkness is a spring which is bleak
And dead with life, followed by a summer which is as cold
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You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within ;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulses beat ;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
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This is what I most want
unpursued, alone
to reach beyond the light
that I am furthest from.
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Light's patterns freeze:
Frost on our faces.
Light's pollen sifts
Through the lids of our eyes ...
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Can a man of old age find joy in his day of old?
Truly there is joy and light! If he search in the
Deepest core of his heart, there is a light, brighter
Than the sun that shine each day, whether it be
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You invoke vastness of glory
And reveal the clarity of the purpose
On one hand, you depict extreme joy
And on the other hand, you portray loneliness
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Always we are following a light,
Always the light recedes; with groping hands
We stretch toward this glory, while the lands
We journey through are hidden from our sight
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The Great Master has taught us.
When the candle of the heart is lit,
It shines brightly with an ethereal glow,
I see the reflection of the same light,
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Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own!
Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge
Constant my heart through the abyss unknown,
Its glory my sole guide while space surge
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Lonely as a cloud I was walking on the beach;
Pain of love lost I was trying to forget in Nature.

Reclined I on a sand meadow musing over Moon.
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The skin of light enveloping this world lacks depth and I can actually see the black night of all these
similar bodies beneath the trembling veil and light of myself it is this night that even the mask of the
sun cannot hide from me I am the seer of night the auditor of silence for silence too is dressed in
sonorous skin and each sense has its own night even as I do I am my own night I am the conceiver
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Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches
Alone in our room. And my little, far-off
Children, too young to understand what keeps me
Away, or even remember Chang'an. By now,
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Mystery voice whispering sound
Sound of silence, echoes the emptiness
Haunting in chamber of the darkness
Within a sanctuary of nothingness
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everyone fears the monster under their bed
I fear the monster in my bed
I fear me
for I am the one that continues on in pain
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On the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.
It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,
A morning campfire at a mountain lake.
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Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,
Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,
Seems vainly to seek for a star whose gleam has derided
Light love in a mist.
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Little baby firefly
when your night is through
does your mommy tuck you in
and tell you she loves you?
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In my sudden fall
Tried to wake up
Standing with no light
Persona of the darkness delight
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The light became her grace and dwelt among
Blind eyes and shadows that are formed as men;
Lo, how the light doth melt us into song:
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Day is the hero's shield,
Achilles' field,
The light days are the angels.
We the seed.
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And I followed the light
on my barefoot
As long as I can
but could never get a hold.
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LIGHT-WINGED Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
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As I light my house with myriad lamps,
A resolution I must take with
A heartfelt message to all,
As a humble healer!
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Warm your feet at the sunset
Before we go to bed
Read your book by the light of Orion
With Sirius guarding your head
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Light. Lightness. Light-heartedness.
Who can measure their measureless weight?

On the kitchen scales, we balance
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houses house bodies
bodies house life

life houses souls
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"The dying words of Goethe."


"Light! more light! the shadows deepen,
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Light is love
Come after the flames
Illuminate bliss in every eyes
Once it comes, lift life high
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JANE, Jane,
Tall as a crane,
The morning light creaks down again;
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ll. 82-91) The citizens of heaven, the home of glory, dwelt
again in concord. Strife was at an end among the angels, discord
and dissension, when those warring spirits, shorn of light, were
hurled from heaven. Behind them stretching wide their mansions
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From a fearful height, a wandering light,
but does a star glitter like this, crying?
Transparent star, wandering light
your brother, Petropolis, is dying.
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The Light Year
September 13, 2023

Light has initially got per second speed
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Man's like a candle in a candlestick,
Made up of tallow and a little wick;
And as the candle when it is not lighted,
So is he who is in his sins benighted.
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When the column of light on the waters is glassed,
As blent in one glow seem the shine and the stream;
But wave after wave through the glory has passed,
Just catches, and flies as it catches, the beam
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You may be surprised to learn windows
are the most patient creatures
in our universe. Always vigilant,
always ready to receive Light,
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NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem,
And lightly in the stress of fortune bear
The innumerable flaws of changeful care -
Nor judge me light for this, nor rashly deem
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When the sun rose bright and high in the sky,
It looked around with its far-reaching eyes,
To spread its radiant light with flamboyance,
To bestow its colourful energy with benevolence.
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your eyes have burned the time to filigree.
Nothing is left of light's necessity.
Silence has interlocked us both in lace.
Great trees are fighting darkness for their space.
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When you light a candle this year
Capture the spark in your eye
let it twinkle through the life
like a star pasted in the sky
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In the mist of darkness,
Lies Deep Dark Woods,
Where the river of hatred flows on and on,
The river is dark, it is black
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I Need Thy Light (A Villanelle inTetrametre)

To distinguish between black and white
Things of the world that go in disguise,
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You multiply trillions in trillions,
And see the result and multiply more,
Infinite time you do the action,
Only wonder will capture your mind,
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May be
I have already written it,
May be
I have not yet written it,
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Light in the chamber
Glass, you keep it inside
Not as fortress from letting it brighten the dark
But your transparency magnify its power to cross the night
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He placed a rose in my nut-brown hair--
A deep red rose with a fragrant heart
And said: 'We'll set this day apart,
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Then when the flame forked like a sudden path
I gasped and stumbled, and was less.
Density pulsing upward, gauze of ash,
Dear light along the way to nothingness,
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The middle region of the sky, wherein the spirit dwelleth, is radiant with the music of light;
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I saw my soul at rest upon a day
As a bird sleeping in the nest of night,
Among soft leaves that give the starlight way
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Perfectly placed sunbeams makes his hair glow.
The sparkle of his eyes when he looks at me is enough to die for.
He has the perfect angle at the corner of his beautifully shaped lips.
He has a smile that could be mistaken for the sun - the one that could light up this whole town.
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1 Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Oh, why
2 Does that eclipsing hand so long deny
3 The sunshine of thy soul-enliv'ning eye?

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Thy golden Light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became
A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane,
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For over two centuries,
Scientists had regarded light as waves.
Albert's scientific paper
‘On a Heuristic point of view concerning
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God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Then heard we sounds as though the Earth did sing
And the Earth's angel cried upon the wing:
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Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou seemest most charming to my sight;
As I gaze upon thee in the sky so high,
A tear of joy does moisten mine eye.
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