O night O trembling night O night of sighs <br />O night when my body was a rod O night <br />When my mouth was a vague animal cry <br />Pasturing on her flesh O night <br />When the close darkness was a nest <br />Made of her hair and filled with my eyes <br /> <br />(O stars impenetrable above <br />The fragile tent poled with our thighs <br />Among the petals falling fields of time <br />O night revolving all our dark away) <br /> <br />O day O gradual day O sheeted light <br />Covering her body as with dews <br />Until I brushed her sealing sleep away <br />To read once more in the uncurtained day <br />Her naked love, my great good news.<br /><br />Stephen Spender<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-night-o-trembling-night/
