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Midnight’s Hour

Jeremy Taylor 1613 – 1667 (Lisburn)


Feathers of time now - Dance; dance upon,
Hearing the chimes of the clocks hand
Midnight; a ghostly light;
Forbidden in the depths of immortal fear
Chime, chiming hands move
Heartbeats now thump - As a cold hand, I now feel!

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Submitted on September 05, 2015

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Scheme ABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 219
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Jeremy Taylor was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. more…

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