Nocturne

Softly blow lightly
O twilight breeze
Scarcely bend slightly
O silver trees:
Night glides slowly down hill . . down stream
Bringing a myriad star-twinkling dream. . . . .
Softly blow lightly
O twilight breeze
Scarcely bend slightly
O silver trees:
Night will spill sleep in your day weary eye
While a soft yellow moon steals down the sky. . . .
Softly blow
Scarcely bend
So . . . . !
Lullaby. . . . . . . .

Credit

From Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen. This poem is in the public domain.

Author

Donald Jeffrey Hayes

Donald Jeffrey Hayes was born on November 16, 1904, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1913, he and his family moved to Pleasantville, New Jersey, where Hayes attended high school and earned a reputation as a skilled debater. Hayes completed high school in Chicago in 1926.

Date Published

01/01/1927