The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Midsummer Night

Watters, A. "Midsummer Night." New-York Saturday Press, July 23, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
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.