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Midsummer Night

Watters, A. "Midsummer Night." New-York Saturday Press. 23 Jul. 1859: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The poem runs through images of dying light, darkness, stillness, and the animals that occupy the night. The five stanzas progressively depict different stages or stories of the night, until the final four lines of the fifth stanza where the narrator addresses his optimism for the sun's eventual return.